[246] in Athena Bugs
A bug with postps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Mon Apr 25 01:46:58 1988
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 88 01:46:15 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Program with which you had the problem: /mit/athenadoc/postps [both RT
and vax versions]
Name of person who discovered the bug: Dave Schulman
Their MIT phone number:
Their MIT address:
Their Athena Login ID: capsalad
Name of consultant reporting bug: jfc
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
Small NewCenturySchoolBook font displayed wrong.
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Please describe the problem in detai:
Using postps to look at a file with small NewCenturySchoolBook font
causes all characters smaller than size 8 or 9 to be shown in a greek
font. This is not a bug in the .PS file: it contains no mention of any
such fonts. It is related to size of character: headers (which are larger)
show up normally.
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Repeat by:
Scribe the following file, then look at it with /mit/athenadoc/postps
[either .vaxpostps or .rtpostps]
@device(PostScript)
@make(report)
@style(spacing 0.7, spread 0, indent 5, topmargin 0.7 inches, leftmargin
0.3 inches, rightmargin 0.3 inches, bottommargin 0.3 inches, font
NewCenturySchoolBook, size 7)
@Begin(Comment)
IF SIZE IS 9 OR LARGER, IT WORKS.
@End(Comment)
@begin(transparent, size 16)
@begin(TitlePage)
@begin(TitleBox)
@Majorheading[Critique of ``How to Have Fun'' by xxxxxxx]
@Heading[21.755 evaluation for Professor Strang]
@end(TitleBox)
@flushright[xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
@flushright[April 25, 1988]
@end(TitlePage)
@end(transparent)
@Heading[Characters]
This story handles its characters about as well as a second-person
narrative can be expected to. . The answer to this
question is unclear, although your story leans somewhat toward the extreme
interpretation.
@Begin(Transparent,Size +2)
This is a test...should be displayed normally.
@End(Transparent)
