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From: davidra@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (David Rabson)
Newsgroups: cu.tex,comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: possible bug in JB Wang's dvi2ps when using Amer. Math. Soc. fonts
Keywords: dvi2ps ams postscript tex
Message-ID: <8291@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 89 15:45:51 GMT
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Organization: Theory Center, Cornell U., Ithaca NY
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I have found what seems like a bug in JB Wang's version (12/88) of dvi2ps;
this is the version that has postscript scale any bitmapped fonts for which
the requested scale is unavailable as a .pk (or .pxl) file.

The program works fine for tex cm and am series fonts and for internal
laser-writer fonts, but it fails on the American Mathematical Society
fonts eufm, eufb, eusm, and eusb.  When these fonts are supposed to
be printed, nothing comes out on the page.  In the postscript output,
the reason is manifest: almost no font-building bitmap information is
loaded for these fonts.  Does anyone know why?  We have all of our
pk fonts in one place and all of our tfm's in one place, and other
(non-scaling) versions of dvi2ps work with the AMS fonts.

David Rabson
davidra@helios.tn.cornell.edu