[18935] in Athena Bugs
linux 8.4.25: dvips
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian S Lai)
Sat Apr 28 15:20:35 2001
Message-Id: <200104281920.PAA11141@mormal.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:20:30 -0400
From: Ian S Lai <ilai@MIT.EDU>
System name: mormal.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 8.4.25
Display type: XFree86 3.3.6 SVGA
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: twm
What were you trying to do?
I was creating a resume in LaTeX2e which I had used
\usepackage{times} in the preamble. I then ran the resume
through LaTeX and used
athena% dvips -Ppdf resume.dvi -oresume.dvi
to generate a postscript copy of the resume.
What's wrong:
All of the "fi" ligatures were replaced with British pound signs
in the postscript (the effect was visible both from the printout
and from viewing it with gv), and the "fl" ligatures were
replaced with another weird symbol (circle with four short
protrusions).
What should have happened:
The ligatures should have come out correctly.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
http://web/answers/latex/latex_distill.html describes using
the -Ppdf option in dvips to get .ps files with Type 1 fonts.
The test file in ~ilai/Public/test.tex illustrates the
problem; running it through latex via "latex test.tex"
and then doing "dvips -Ppdf test.dvi -otest.ps" generates
a postscript file in which the second through fifth
words on the page have weird symbols in place of the ligatures
for "fi" and "fl".
