[l2h] Bug report: Illegal division by zero latex2html.bat line 558 when setting $PK_GENERATION = 1

[Ross Moore]

Hello Nasser,

On 17/11/2009, at 3:05 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

> (also posted on comp.text.tex)
>
> On windows, XP, SP2, using latex2html 2008 version, I get the  
> following when I set
> $PK_GENERATION = 1 in the l2hconf.pm file

Why would you want this now?

That is an old option for when fonts used to be made up
of bitmaps. THat is out-dated technology now, by 10 years
or more.

Instead, modern TeX installations have scalable outline-based
fonts, in PostScript, TrueType or OpenType formats.
To use these LaTeX2HTML has a  $SCALEABLE_FONTS  variable, and
$DVIPS_OPTS (or similar name) to customise how your installation
finds which fonts to use.

>
> latex2html -split 0  -no_subdir -local_icons -style="nma.css"   
> index.tex
> $* is no longer supported at G:\LATEX\latex2html\bin/latex2html.bat  
> line 10607.
> Illegal division by zero at G:\LATEX\latex2html\bin/latex2html.bat  
> line 558.
>
> The error goes away when restting  $PK_GENERATION = 0
>
> This is the env. I have
>
> MikTex: Version 8.2 http://miktex.org/
> Perl: Active Perl 5.1 build 1006. http://www.activestate.com/ 
> activeperl/
> netpbm for windows: Version 10.27. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ 
> packages/netpbm.htm
> gsview: version 4.9. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get49.htm
> ghostcript. AFLP http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/index.htm
> latex2html version 2008 http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ 
> latex2html/
>
> --Nasser


Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore

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