[7577] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.2R: xdvi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Wed May 15 18:01:57 1991
Date: Wed, 15 May 91 18:00:10 -0400
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: darford@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
Yet another comment on xdvi...it turns out that the behavior difference
between the two versions goes away if `timrom' is removed from the
documentstyle line. Times-Roman is a PostScript Font, and since xdvi
can't display PostScript fonts, it tries to substitute a TeX font for
it. Both versions try to substitute the same font, but the patch 11
version must be doing something different when substituting, since if it
uses `cmr' to begin with, it does okay.
My opinion is that xdvi cannot be held responsible for bad substitution
of absent fonts, especially PostScript fonts. I'll forward the bug
anyway, since it may be useful to the authors/maintainers. In general,
once you've put PostScript in your TeX file, only a PostScript printer
or a true PostScript previewer like dxpsview can be expected to deal
well.
-Calvin
