DVIPS woes

[Taco Hoekwater]

 >>  Am I missing something here?
 >> 
 SR> a change in dvips means that the BaKoMa fonts break the partial
 SR> downloading code. maddening, but true. there are cleaned versions
 SR> on the TeX Live CD

This is not really fair. The bug is in dvips, not in the fonts. There
have been bugs in dvips' pfb/pfa font handling for as long as I
remember. The reason is simple: dvips does *not* parse the Type1
fonts. Instead the code is based on 'common practise' binary snippets
that incidentally work OK ('standard' Adobe and Gs fonts).

Greetings, Taco