Bug#508528: texlive-base-bin: dvips without -j0 causes missing characters in output

2008-12-21 Thread Mark T.B. Carroll
Ralf Stubner writes: > I see no point in passing it upstream for several reasons. One is that > there is almost no development going on with respect to dvips. That's sufficient reason in and of itself. > The other is that this is a quite tricky problem. Basically you would > need a full PS inte

Bug#508528: texlive-base-bin: dvips without -j0 causes missing characters in output

2008-12-21 Thread Ralf Stubner
retitle 508528 dvips should parse referenced PS images to determin used fonts severity 508528 wishlist tags 508528 wontfix thanks On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:35 -0500, Mark T.B. Carroll wrote: > Ralf Stubner writes: > > > The problem is simply that dvips cannot interpret the included PS > > image

Bug#508528: texlive-base-bin: dvips without -j0 causes missing characters in output

2008-12-15 Thread Mark T.B. Carroll
Ralf Stubner writes: > The problem is simply that dvips cannot interpret the included PS > image, since it does not contain a PS parser. Oh - the DVI format still includes uninterpreted PostScript (the included EPS figures)? Gosh. Now I come to look at xdvi's manpage I see that indeed it does se

Bug#508528: texlive-base-bin: dvips without -j0 causes missing characters in output

2008-12-14 Thread Ralf Stubner
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 16:08 -0500, Mark T.B. Carroll wrote: > You are correct. I did this a long time ago and completely forgot; > apologies for forgetting a way in which I had poked things away from > defaults. No problem. > I have a habit of having to submit documents to people who require

Bug#508528: texlive-base-bin: dvips without -j0 causes missing characters in output

2008-12-12 Thread Mark T.B. Carroll
Ralf Stubner writes: > I suspect that dvipsDownloadBase35 is set to true You are correct. I did this a long time ago and completely forgot; apologies for forgetting a way in which I had poked things away from defaults. > As I said, dvipsDownloadBase35 is set to flase by default. If I am > right

Bug#508528: texlive-base-bin: dvips without -j0 causes missing characters in output

2008-12-12 Thread Ralf Stubner
Hi Mark, thnaks for your report. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 21:31 -0500, Mark T.B. Carroll wrote: > Package: texlive-base-bin > Version: 2007.dfsg.2-4 > Severity: normal > > Note minimal input file and other files below. > > My texlive-latex-base version is 2007.dfsg.1-4 > My ghostscript version i

Bug#508528: texlive-base-bin: dvips without -j0 causes missing characters in output

2008-12-11 Thread Mark T.B. Carroll
Package: texlive-base-bin Version: 2007.dfsg.2-4 Severity: normal Note minimal input file and other files below. My texlive-latex-base version is 2007.dfsg.1-4 My ghostscript version is 8.62.dfsg.1-3.1 I do: ps2epsi graphics.ps to make graphics.epsi Then I do: latex problem.tex to make problem