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Re: New TeXfonts in 7.6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jul 29 16:29:07 1993
From: cfields@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 93 16:28:52 -0400
To: solo26@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@Athena.MIT.EDU
> the use of 600dpi fonts is fine, and all, and really nice if you want
> to look at one letter at a time in your xdvi window.
Yours is the first report of this interesting xdvi behavior, as far
as I know. I only got to start looking at it today.
> I find this unacceptable, however. To my eyes, previewing with 600dpi
> fonts allows better magnification, but WORSE viewing of the document
> as a whole.
Often when things break during the testing of a new release, people
like to make the assumption that we made it that way on purpose.
In this case as in others, this is something we broke. We don't intend
to make counterproductive changes in functionality. Coincidentally,
I was working on fixing the very problems you have just reported when
I received your mail.
> Has this been discussed beforehand?
This has not been discussed because it's not something we intended to
break.
> Also, the fact that xdvi fails now, without the -p 600 option is BAD.
In some cases, it fails even _with_ the -p 600 option. I have both fixes
for this problem now, however.
> Backwards compatibility sort of suggests that the 300dpi fonts should
> have stayed around
If this is required to maintain sane behavior of TeX clients, then we
may well do that.
> Also, what about people who don't have 600dpi printers?
I don't know. I don't know if this has been discussed at all. What
happens when you try to print to a 300dpi printer from a 7.6 machine
right now?
And if something bad happens, merely providing the 300dpi fonts I
don't think is enough to solve the problem. I'm not sure there is a
good solution, but someone who knows more about TeX would have to
address that.
Anyway, thanks for your bug report.
Craig
