Bug#178712: tetex-bin: mktexpk handles ttf fonts with gsftopk, which breaks on CJK

[Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) <danai.sae-han@skynet.be>]

I used an incorrect Subject: line when using my newsreader pan.
Let's stick to Emacs-CVS and Mew. :D


Op woe, 03 Aug 2005 00:50:06 +0200, schreef Chung-chieh Shan:

> I'm running teTeX from unstable:
> 
>     tetex-base                  2.0.2c-8
>     tetex-bin                   2.0.2-31
>     tetex-extra                 2.0.2c-8
>     cjk-latex                   4.5.1-4
>     tfm-arphic-bkai00mp         2.11.2-0.1
>     tfm-arphic-bsmi00lp         2.11.2-0.1
>     tfm-arphic-gbsn00lp         2.11.2-0.1
>     tfm-arphic-gkai00mp         2.11.2-0.1
>     ttf-arphic-bkai00mp         2.10-6
>     ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp         2.10-6
>     ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp         2.11-6
>     ttf-arphic-gkai00mp         2.11-6
> 
> The problem seems to have persisted.  A sample DVI file is at
> http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~ccshan/debbugs/tetex-bin/178712.dvi .
> If I put the line
> 
>     Map arphic.map
> 
> in a file in /etc/texmf/updmap.d, and clear /var/cache/fonts, then
> 
>     update-updmap; updmap; xdvi 178712.dvi
> 
> does not properly produce the PK fonts necessary to display the Chinese
> sentences in the first paragraph on the second page correctly.  By
> contrast, if I don't put anything in /etc/texmf/updmap.d, but instead
> add the line
> 
>     map +arphic.map
> 
> to /etc/texmf/pdftex/pdftex.cfg, and clear /var/cache/fonts, then
> 
>     update-updmap; updmap; xdvi 178712.dvi
> 
> does display the Chinese sentences correctly.


Hi Chung-chieh

The official cjk-latex package has some Chinese fonts misconfigured.
The reason is that arphic.map correctly points to bsmi00lp.ttf, which
is installed by the ttf-arphic package.  But if you use "latex"
instead, it will use PK fonts that are defined somewhere else, in .fd
files more precisely.  They point for example to "bsmilp", but in fact
there are no bsmilp??.tfm files installed; it's been renamed to
bsmi??.tfm on Debian.

You can either choose to manually edit the .fd (font definition) files
in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/CJK/Bg5/ (or rename/recreate the TFM
font files) or you could try out my updated cjk-latex packages
(renamed to latex-cjk-*, but there is a dummy package provided for
smooth transition) which you can apt-get at
  deb http://chinese.alioth.debian.org latex-cjk/
  deb-src http://chinese.alioth.debian.org latex-cjk/

for i386 builds and the source, or at
  deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free


I was able read your DVI file without problems.  If you want to use
pdflatex using the TTF fonts directly, you should modify pdftex.cfg.,
etc.  You know the drill. ;)

pdf(la)tex will work with or without the addition of arphic.map.
If you add it, pdf(la)tex will use the TrueType fonts directly, while
if you just leave it, it will use the PFB fonts.  I'm not aware of any
major differences in quality, but it could be my eyes.  8~D

Or you can just "latex" your file and use dvipdfm.  I have found out
that the resulting sizes of the PDF files are usually smaller when
compared to pdflatex.
You can get an example of this at
  http://users.skynet.be/so000618/cjk/178712.pdf


HTH your problem with gsftopk.


Danai SAE-HAN
韓達耐

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