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Chris Barker wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I'm having some issues with tetex. Are any of you using it without |
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> problems? |
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No problems here; I have tetex-2.0.2-r3 installed from portage. |
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> Two issues I've identified are: |
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> 1)Problems with the time package, which used postscript times fonts. The |
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> ligatures (fi, etc) are getting displayed wrong in xdvi. |
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Sounds like a problem with xdvi. Try kdvi (part of kdegraphics, I believe). |
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> 2) pdflatex seems to have trouble finding fonts, in particular: |
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> Warning: pdflatex (file phvr8r): Font phvr8r at 720 not found |
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> I do have: |
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> /var/cache/fonts/pk/modeless/adobe/times/ptmr8r.600pk |
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> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/times/ptmr8rn.tfm |
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> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/times/ptmr8r.tfm |
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> shouldn't the 720dpi one get generated automatically? Besides, I don't |
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> want bit mapped fonts in a pdf anyway. |
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> 3) related to previous: pdflatex seems to be putting bit mapped fonts |
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> into the pdf rather than scalable fonts. |
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AFAICT, pdflatex gives me scalable fonts. |
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> The strange thing is that I've discovered these issues on a document |
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> that was working just great with the tetex that came with Redhat7.2, |
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> which was pretty old! |
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> Anyone have any ideas? Maybe I should just install tetex by hand from |
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> source instead. |
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> -Chris |
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