[tex-k] dvips -G1 bugfix: testing needed

[Thomas Esser]

Hi,

Tomas Rokicki just has finnished an important bugfix concerning the
character shifting feature of dvips.

The bug which is not hopefully fixed is that character shifting when
activated e.g. via -G1 or -Ppdf has not checked whether the used slots
for remapping are free in the font or not.

The old bug can be reproduced, e.g. by running dvips -G1 on the dvi file
from the following TeX source:
  \font\x=ptmr7t\x fi\bye

You can help us a lot by applying the new patch and reporting success
or a problem with the new patch (please try on dvi files loading lots
of fonts not just the above mini-example). Since we are close to a new
TeX Live release, it'd be great to get this patch quickly tested.

To try it out, you need:
  ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20020402.tar.gz
  http://www.tug.org/teTeX/teTeX-src-beta-20020402-expdvips.patch.gz

Then,
  gzip -dc < teTeX-src-beta-20020402.tar.gz | tar xvf -
  gunzip teTeX-src-beta-20020402-expdvips.patch.gz
  cd teTeX-src-beta-20020402
  patch -p1 -s < ../teTeX-src-beta-20020402-expdvips.patch

and either build everything or just dvips, e.g.
  cd texk; ./configure; cd dvipsk; make dvips

For a full build (installation notes in QuickInstall), you might need
the texmf tree of teTeX-beta:
  ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20020207.tar.gz

Thomas