[fptex] Cannot display PS files in WinDVI

[Pascal Chantriaux]

Just a thing : your source file seems to have a non-dos name
(not 8.3) and the name of the dvi file appears as NL-Art~1.dvi
on the windvi window.
On my system (windows XP), when the name of the source file
has more than 8 characters, like abcdefghijklm.tex, the
name of the dvi file appears as abcdefghijklm.dvi in the
windvi window.
Is it normal?
Have you tried to rename your source file with a dos name
to see if it change something?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivailo Stoyanov" <istoyanov at freenet.de>
To: <pascal.chantriaux at ac-grenoble.fr>; <fptex at tug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [fptex] Cannot display PS files in WinDVI


> Dear Pascal,
>
> now the things are getting more clearer -- THANKS A LOT!!!
>
> > 1) With
> >        prologues:=0;
> >      in the .mp source file :
> >      -- windvi doesn't display the text (and, on my system,
> >          windvi stop displaying the remainig pictures of the
> >          page)
> >      -- using dvips (with a good psfonts.map) provides
> >          a .ps file with the text with the right fonts (bitmaps
> >          fonts included in the .ps).
> >
> > 2) With
> >       prologues:=2;
> >     in the .mp source file :
> >     -- windvi display the text but perhaps with wrong fonts
> >     -- using dvips provides a .ps file with the text but perhaps
> >         with wrong fonts
> >     If you want the right fonts you need to have, in the file
> >     fontmap of the \gslib directory of ghostcript, the reference
> >     to the fonts you use in the .mp source. For exemple, if you
> >     use cm fonts, you need to download the fontmap.cmr file
> >     (from /ctan/fonts/cm/ps-type1/contrib/), put this file in
> >     \gslib and add the line
> >     (Fontmap.cmr) .runlibfile
> >     at the end of the fontmap file of \gslib.
> >     Some explanations are in the begining of the fontmap.gs
> >     file of the \gslib directory.
>
> My case is somewhat intermediate -- some of the the graphs appear in the
*.dvi file, but when I scroll down and up again, some of them disappear on
the way back and vice versa. I've noticed that the problematic PS pictures
are these with manipulated font-sizes (i.e. not the standard ones as set by
the graphics output). You may see this on the attached jpgs: when I scroll
down the document, the problematic figure appears (although incomplete: see
``down.jpg''), but when I scroll up afterwards this picture disappears from
the preview (``up.jpg''). As you may see, this situation clearly differs
from your description of 1) in the fact that WinDVI displays a readable
text, but with (wisible after a great magnification) some bitmap(?) font.
>
> Otherwise I have no problems with dvips -- the output is great, besides
some complains at the command prompt about a font that is not in the mapping
file:
>
> ---SNIP---
> dvips: Font Helvetica used in file fig05.ps is not in the mapping file.
> dvips: Font Helvetica-Bold used in file fig05.ps is not in the mapping
file.
> dvips: Font Helvetica-Oblique used in file fig05.ps is not in the mapping
file.
> dvips: Font Helvetica-BoldOblique used in file fig05.ps is not in the
mapping fi
> le.
> dvips: Font Symbol used in file fig05.ps is not in the mapping file.
> ---SNIP---
>
> but in the resulting *.ps the font seems OK (i.e. it is not bitmapped)
>
> Anyway, I am still not sure what to do, but I think that the problem is
now much better described.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ivailo
>
> PS. Please accept my apologies for I have changed the subject of the
current post -- I decided to do so because it is related to PS display in
WinDVI and not to dvipdfm! I hope you accept this.
>
>