Bug#519448: texlive-base-bin: xdvi does not work with package arial.sty

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norman Ramsey <nr@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Package: texlive-base-bin
> Version: 2007.dfsg.2-4
> Severity: normal
>
>
> File using package arial.sty runs through latex OK but xdvi is unable
> to find the information it needs to build the font:
[...]
> This seems to me like a packaging issue, in that the arial.sty is
> accepted by latex but the actual font cannot be rendered.  Similar
> errors occur when trying to render the font using dvips or pdflatex.

Did that ever work? I think (but I might be wrong) that all the styles
from the pclnfss directory only make sense if you have a pcl printer
with its builtin commercial fonts, and want to use them.  

For previewing, you'd either need a copy of the fonts you bought with
the printer on disk, or a special previewer (Again, IIRC there used to
be one, but I cannot remember its name, nor whether it is still
included, or maybe removed due to licensing issues or bitrot).


Just in case you don't care about pcl and just want to use something
that looks like arial:

\usepackage[scaled=0.9]{helvet}

(maybe the scaling factor could be tweaked a bit).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg