DVIPS woes

Eli Zaretskii eliz@is.elta.co.il
Thu, 27 May 1999 10:46:46 +0300 (IDT)


On Thu, 27 May 1999, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> 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).

May I suggest to submit patches, or at least a bug report, to the DVIPS 
maintainer?