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From: evas@cs.eur.nl (Eelco van Asperen)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: dvipage bug
Message-ID: <1989Sep8.095422.19227@cs.eur.nl>
Date: 8 Sep 89 09:54:22 GMT
References: <BEN.89Sep6145012@lamm.nsf1.mth.msu.edu>
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Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam, dept. EUR/EF/CS (Informatica)
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ben@nsf1.mth.msu.edu (Ben Lotto) writes:
>I recently got dvipage from june.cs.washington.edu and compiled it to
>use pk files.  Everything compiled fine.  But when I run it on the
>output from the tex file

>	Hi there.  How are you today?
>	\bye

>the image in the dvipage window looks like

>	e H re o toay

This is a bug in fonts.c; the routine that reads the characters from
the font-file does not return anything, ie. garbage AND the result
is used ! It does work the second time the page is displayed because
the character does not have to be read from the font-file.
Aplly this fix to fonts.c and things should work ok:

------- fonts.c -------
404a405
> 	/*NOTREACHED*/
1216c1217
< 		return;
---
> 		return FALSE;
1333a1335
> 	return TRUE;

Hope this helps,

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