[Tugindia] Type 3 fonts problem

[David Kastrup]

harishankar ramachandran <hsr@tenet.res.in> writes:

> 
> > > When I instead ran
> > >
> > > 	divps -Ppdf -o paper.ps paper.dvi
> > > 	ps2pdf paper.ps paper.pdf
> > >
> > > I now got a file that was correctly viewable by all three (though xpdf
> > > still complained about Type 3 fonts) except that all 'fi' sequences were
> > > replaced by the pound symbol.
> >
> > Known bug in dvips (fixed just pretty recently).  Call it with option
> > -Ppdf -j0, or change the j option in config.pdf accordingly.
> 
> Well, I tried this and it did nothing. Perhaps my installation is
> simply too old.

Perhaps I am simply a foolish old man with a bad memory.  -j0 helps
against a different problem with older dvips versions (usually if you
are having trouble with cmsuper fonts), I really meant the -G0 option.

Sorry for the confusion.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de