Bug#132459: suggested workaround does not work
On 14.08.02 Chris Fearnley (cjf@AdminForce.net) wrote:
Hi,
http://bugs.debian.org/132459
> In this article
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2002/debian-tetex-maint-200203/msg00220.html
>
> Barak Pearlmutter <bap@snot.cs.unm.edu> suggests that
> dvips -Ppdf -G0 ...
> dvips -Pcmz ...
>
> But it doesn't work in the latest stable (3.0, woody). I purged dvips &
> company and reinstalled. This is what results:
>
> I'm running
> dvips -Ppdf -G0 -o file.ps file.dvi
>
> it gives output like this:
> This is dvips(k) 5.86e Copyright 2001 Radical Eye Software
> (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2002.08.14:1146' -> catavault.system.docs.ps
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+0/8000
> --dpi 8000 ecbx2074
> mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 8000; ignoring mode.
> mktexpk: Can't guess mode for 8000 dpi devices.
> mktexpk: Use a config file, or update me.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
> dvips: Font ecbx2074 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
> dvips: Such scaling will generate extremely poor output.
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+0/8000
> --dpi 8000 ecrm1000
> mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 8000; ignoring mode.
> mktexpk: Can't guess mode for 8000 dpi devices.
> mktexpk: Use a config file, or update me.
>
This is described in #184875. Bug has been forwarded to upstream and
fixed there. #132459 has been closed today.
> Then I run
> ps2pdf file.ps file.pdf
>
> and xpdf says it has Type 3 fonts in it that it can't deal with.
>
xpdf is actually able to display Type3-fonts.
> How to get nice Type 1 font output?
>
Use fonts, which are available as Type1 (latin modern, cm-super,
psnfss).
H.
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