[fptex] Re: fpTeX 0.5 problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Svend Daugaard Pedersen wrote:

> Hello Fabrice
>
> On 22-Sep-01, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
>
> > * Svend Daugaard Pedersen <Svend@DaugaardPedersen.dk> writes:
> >
> >> I have installed the new fpTeX without problems. Also WinDvi can be
> >
> > Nothing significant in the texmf-var/web2c/szetup-*.log file ?
> >
> >> started. But when I try to load (from within WinDvi) some of my dvi
> >> files (those containing math formulas) I get this fatal error
> >> message:
> >
> >>   Not all pixel files were found
> >
> > Because it has not been able to find any of the .pk files it needs.
> > Probably it is expecting to build .pk files out of type1 fonts using
> > gsftopk, and for some reason it fails to do so.
> >
> > I would check that Ghostscript is installed (6.50 recommmended) and
>
> I had the 7.00 installed. I uninstalled this and installed 6.50 -- and
> this change did it :-)

There is a patch for render.ps for use with gs7.00 on Paul Vojta's site,
and that does work with the pre-0.5 on TeXLive6.

http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/gsftopk.html

Brian

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