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From: hsong@nvuxl.UUCP (g hugh song)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: dvips5.4 does not generate fonts any more?
Keywords: dvips 5.4
Message-ID: <750@nvuxl.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 90 02:57:30 GMT
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Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
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I had installed dvips 5.39 before I installed dvips 5.39.  
I noticed a very strange difference between the two version.

5.39 used to generate PK fonts from metafonts using "MakeTeXPK"
script.  5.4 touches the same script doing nothing.

For example, I have gotten the follwing log from a sample execution of
dvips5.4

% dvips local1
This is dvips, version 5.4 (C) 1986-90 Radical Eye Software
' TeX output 1990.12.15:1855' -> local1.ps
- MakeTeXPK cmcsc10 360 300 magstep\(1.0\)
dvips: Font cmcsc10.300pk at 360 not found; scaling 300 instead.
dvips: Such scaling will generate extremely poor output.
<tex.pro>. [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
[15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]

---c---------c-----------c---------c-------

So I had to explicitly type

"MakeTeXPK cmcsc10 360 300 magstep\(1.0\)"

and reissue "dvips local1".  Then dvips processes "local1.tex" without complain.
This means that I installed "mf" and "MakeTeXPK" properly.
Am I missing something? Or has dvips 5.4 really
changed as above?

Please email.  Thanks.

	-hsong-
	nvuxl!hsong@bellcore.bellcore.com

PS: You need to type "nvuxl\!hsong@..." on Csh command line.