DVIPS woes

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > > 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?

he definitely knows. i guess the next step is to look at pdftex and
dvipdfm, which have implemented the same thing, and see one can come
up with a better bit of code. 

sebastian