[tex-k] Re: vftovp strange behaviour

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hello Olaf,


> That's fairly easy to fix:

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Nice to see, thanks.


>> and perhaps:

>> 'vftovp relies on the referenced tfm to be found.' The other way round
>> seems to work fine without these referenced tfm data. Why does vftovp
>> rely on these files?
>
> That's likely an artifact of the history of the program, code copied
> from dvitype.

So, is it really useless? Any chance of turning this 'feature' off? 

Thanks,

 Patrick