[18737] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.19: dvips
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Wed Jan 31 18:29:31 2001
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:29:28 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200101312329.SAA03456@geskekelud.mit.edu>
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
To: sergei@mit.edu
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: [18736]
Hi!
This is happening because you have a .dvipsrc in your home directory
which is referencing the BaKoMa fonts. These fonts were provided to
allow dvips to generate postscript files which can be distilled into
nicer-looking pdf files than the standard LaTeX fonts use. However,
with last summer's release, the default dvips and the BaKoMa fonts
basically clash.
You have several options:
1) If you aren't trying to generate pdf files, then the .dvipsrc file
is pretty much irrelevant (unless you have other lines in there
besides the one referencing these fonts) and you can remove the
file.
2) If you are generating pdf files, but your latex files don't include
any special postscript code (i.e. colors, or included postscript
figures), then you can use pdflatex to create your pdf file
instead.
3) If you are generating pdf files, and you *do* have special
postscript code in your .tex document, then you may still want to
use BaKoMa/distill. In this case, you'll need to use the dvips
from the newtex locker, which doesn't cause this clash:
athena% add -f newtex
athena% dvips file.dvi [-o file.ps]
-Laura Baldwin
