Re: The Russian issue (was: Issues with and after upgrade to texlive)
Hi Frans!
On Don, 19 Apr 2007, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Can you run:
> > dvips -Ppdf "$infile"
> > and send me the output (of stdout and stderr?)
>
> Here it is:
> http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i_manual/ru.pdf2._sid.dvips.log
Well, this shows clearly that there are quite some problems:
- the font lasx2488 is generated at resolution 8000 (which is quite
big!) This takes some time
- The generation of the font breaks:
Uppercase Cyrillic letter SCHWA
! Value is too large (-4259.133).
I guess this is a consequence of the resolution 8000.
> > Does it *always* take so long time?
>
> Yes, but funnily it does not seem to be the dvips part of the process (see
> the timing in the log), but the piping into gs that takes most of the
No, it is not the piping. It is the font at this enormous resolution in
pixel format which makes gs work like hell.
Please, can you send me a dvips log (like the one above) from a GOOD
run, ie an etch run!? And did you use texlive on etch or tetex on etch?
> I also tried dvipdfm for the Russian PDF, and that resulted in:
> $ time dvipdfm -p a4 install.ru.dvi 2>/dev/null
>
> install.ru.dvi -> install.ru.pdf
>
> real 0m1.189s
> user 0m1.012s
> sys 0m0.112s
Well, this is nice, isn't it. Can you send me the log of this run, too!
Thanks a lot, I am sure we will find the solution. One idea: Do you have
~/.texmf-config ? And which files are there?
Best wishes
Norbert
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