Pretest: dvi LaTeX, fontenc, type3 fonts

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Tue Mar 26 00:06:04 CET 2019


Hi Brian,

    TeXLive Pretest 2019 without fontenc: Type 1C font.
    TeXLive Pretest 2019 with fontenc: Type 3 font with bad bounding boxes.

Do you have cm-super installed? (And, perhaps running pdflatex would
illuminate the situation. Or perhaps not.)

I get Type 1 fonts in both cases. But with fontenc, sfrm1000.pfb is
used. Without fontenc, I get the ams cmr10.pfb. This is as expected.

Why you're getting the bad bounding boxes in the fontenc case, I can't
say without seeing what actually went awry. --best, karl.

P.S. Specifically, with fontenc (tl19 pretest), I get:

$ latex fefonts && dvips fefonts && ps2pdf fefonts.ps && pdffonts fefonts.pdf

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded format=latex)
..
This is dvips(k) 5.999 Copyright 2019 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
..
</usr/local/texlive/pretest/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-t1.enc>
</usr/local/texlive/pretest/texmf-dist/dvips/base/texps.pro>. 
</usr/local/texlive/pretest/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/cm-super/sfrm1000.pfb>
..
name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
YCEUHV+SFRM1000                      Type 1C           yes yes no       8  0

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Without fontenc:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded format=latex)
..
This is dvips(k) 5.999 Copyright 2019 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
..
</usr/local/texlive/pretest/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
..
name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
TILODD+CMR10                         Type 1C           yes yes no       8  0


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