[tex-live] New version of the type1 cm fonts fails with dvipdfm

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Mon Jul 6 19:11:39 CEST 2009


On Mo, 06 Jul 2009, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> The "bluesky" type1 version of the cm fonts have been moved. They
> are now part of the amsfonts package. They have also been updated.
> E.g all glyphs have been given unicode-compliant names. 
> 
> One of the changes seems to give problems with dvipdfm. E.g in the
> following document the left arrow is missing in the pdf.
> 
> \documentclass{report}
> \begin{document}
> abc$\leftarrow$abc
> \end{document}
> 
> dvipdfmx and xdvipdfmx (from xetex) works fine. Also pdftex and
> dvips. 

In TL 2009 dvipdfm will be a link to dvipdfmx, and indeed in our TL2009
it is working and the arrow is there.

Best

Norbert



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