Bug#184875: (fwd) Bug#184875: tetex-bin: dvips -Ppdf won't work at all

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 19.03.04 Karl Berry (karl@freefriends.org) wrote:

Hello *,

> Meanwhile, another whole approach would be to use pdf(la)tex
> directly, instead of dvips -Ppdf.  Then it is the pk_resolution
> value in pdftex.cfg which controls things, but to my knowledge
> pdftex doesn't autocreate fonts, so I end up running dvips once to
> generate the fonts, pdftex thereafter.
> 
changelog-debian:

tetex-bin (2.0.2-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed 95NonPath.cnf (patch-tmp) so that pdf(la)tex can create bitmap fonts.
    Thanks to Frank KÃŒster <frank@kuesterei.ch>  (Closes: #223412) [kohda]

Just a question of configuration in texmf.cnf (at least in teTeX).

> Of course there are many documents (like those using pstricks)
> where pdftex can't be used, but when it can, it may give better
> results than dvi -> ps -> pdf.
> 
I think that was the intention of the submitter.

H.
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