I found the old message from Karl (Sept., 2011):<br><br>[tex-live] dvipsDownloadBase35 now true by default<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:02 PM, George N. White III <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gnwiii@gmail.com" target="_blank">gnwiii@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I can reproduce the problem using both evince and okular viewers with a PS file created using dvips from TL2012 on Ubuntu 12.04 (x86_64). The figure looks correct in a PS file created using the distro texlive 2009 package. It could be significant that the problem files are much larger due to the inclusion of URW fonts. This raises the possibility that the two files are being rendered using different versions of the URW fonts (e.g., the "system" versions from the linux distro and the TL version).<br>
<br>I recall some discussion of whether the URW fonts should be embedded in dvips output to help<br>ensure that the versions used to create the PS file were the same as those used to view the file.<br>Since the figure does not include the fonts, the TL2012 version may be getting fonts different from those used to create the figure. The discussion in Paul Murrell and Brian Ripley (2006) Non-standard fonts in PostScript
and PDF graphics. <em>R News</em>, 6(2):41–47.
<a href="http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-2.pdf" target="_blank">http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-2.pdf</a> might be relevant.<br>
<br>$ ls -l example-*.ps<br> 52 -rw-r--r-- 1 gwhite bod 51789 Nov 19 20:06 <a href="http://example-texlive2011.ps" target="_blank">example-texlive2011.ps</a><br>164 -rw-r--r-- 1 gwhite bod 166255 Nov 19 20:06 <a href="http://example-texlive2012.ps" target="_blank">example-texlive2012.ps</a><br>
$ grep BeginFont example-*.ps<br>example-texlive2011.ps:%%BeginFont: txtt<br>example-texlive2011.ps:%%BeginFont: rtxmi<br>example-texlive2011.ps:%%BeginFont: txsy<br>example-texlive2011.ps:%%BeginFont: rtxsc<br>example-texlive2011.ps:%%BeginFont: rtxr<br>
example-texlive2012.ps:%%BeginFont: NimbusRomNo9L-Medi<br>example-texlive2012.ps:%%BeginFont: txtt<br>example-texlive2012.ps:%%BeginFont: NimbusRomNo9L-Regu<br>example-texlive2012.ps:%%BeginFont: NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal<br>
example-texlive2012.ps:%%BeginFont: rtxmi<br>example-texlive2012.ps:%%BeginFont: NimbusSanL-Regu<br>example-texlive2012.ps:%%BeginFont: NimbusSanL-Bold<br>example-texlive2012.ps:%%BeginFont: txsy<br>example-texlive2012.ps:%%BeginFont: NimbusRomNo9L-MediItal<br>
example-texlive2012.ps:%%BeginFont: rtxsc<br>example-texlive2012.ps:%%BeginFont: rtxr<br><br>I renamed the original plot and ran (using R)<br><br>> embedFonts('plot_dY_SpT_zmh_nofonts.ps', outfile='plot_dY_SpT_zmh.ps')<br>
<br>With this change, the output using dvips from TL2012 shows the correct labels, but rendering quality is poor because the "embedFonts" replaces outline fonts with the outline paths. <br><br><div class="gmail_extra">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Volker RW Schaa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:v.r.w.schaa@gsi.de" target="_blank">v.r.w.schaa@gsi.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have answered to Nicola directly with my (non)findings. As I produced<br>
a number of PDF files I sent them directly.<br>
The report Acrobat Professional produced in 'Compare Documents' didn't<br>
show any changes other then different fonts (Times vs Nimbus).<br>
For me all PS files converted to PDF look exactly the same.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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Volker</font></span><div><div><br>
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On 20/11/2012 01:01, Karl Berry wrote:<br>
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When I use dvips from texlive-2012, the figure in the output<br>
postscript file misses part of the axis labels and labels inside the<br>
plot. However, if I use instead dvips from texlive-2011 all is well.<br>
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Thanks for the report, and especially for sending all the needed files.<br>
I'll look at it as soon as I have a chance, if no one else gets there<br>
first. Offhand, I can't think of any changes in 2012 that would have<br>
affected this :(.<br>
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karl<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>George N. White III <<a href="mailto:aa056@chebucto.ns.ca" target="_blank">aa056@chebucto.ns.ca</a>><br>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>George N. White III <<a href="mailto:aa056@chebucto.ns.ca">aa056@chebucto.ns.ca</a>><br>Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia<br>
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