[tex-k] Plain text PFA files in dvipsk

[Tom Kacvinsky]

The current version of dvips is set up to use the Type 1 font subsetting engine
from pdftex...  Th patch is appreciatd, but when more and more users start using
the latest, greatest dvips, the problems you are seeing won't be an issue for
them.

BTW, may I see the font?  The version of dvips that you are having problems with
should accept regular PFA files.  I suspect a problem with the PFA file.  The
"currentfile eexec" line is part and parcel of a Type 1 font (though how it
appears and where the data after the eexec token starts can vary).

Tom

On 18 Apr 2001 kahl@heraklit.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>   I am just writing my first PostScript font,
> and after installing it into the TeX/dvips machinery,
> dvips complained:
>
> This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2001.04.17:1601' -> RelSymbDoc.ps
> <texc.pro><texps.pro>. <RelSymb.pfa>This is DVIPS, t1part module
> Error: RelSymb.pfa is not a valid PFA file
>
>
> However, xdvi could use it, so I looked at the source.
>
> Unfortunately, the latest I could find on DANTE was dvipsk-5.78a,
> so I patched that --- the problem was that PartialPFA expected
> ALWAYS a ``currentfile eexec'', and would return FALSE
> for plain ASCII PFA files.
>
> Therefore, I just had to add a few lines to fix this,
> see patch below  (diff -c -r dvipsk-5.78a dvipsk-5.78b).
>
> Could this be integrated into the distribution, please?
> (And where does the latest distribution reside, if not on CTAN,
>  of which DANTE ([www|ftp].dante.de) is supposed to be part?)
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfram Kahl
>
>
> ======== dvipsk-5.78a_to_5.78b.patch ==================================
> diff -c -r dvipsk-5.78a/dvipsk/ChangeLog dvipsk-5.78b/dvipsk/ChangeLog
> *** dvipsk-5.78a/dvipsk/ChangeLog	Mon Mar  9 11:33:19 1998
> --- dvipsk-5.78b/dvipsk/ChangeLog	Wed Apr 18 14:42:41 2001
> ***************
> *** 1,3 ****
> --- 1,8 ----
> + Wed Apr 18 14:33:10 2001 Wolfram Kahl <kahl@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de>
> +
> + 	* t1part.c: plain text PFA files (no ``currentfile eexec'')
> + 	                   are now accepted.
> +
>   Mon Mar  9 10:31:44 1998  Sebastian Rahtz  <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
>
>   	* clean reencoding/asex.enc; small fix to copyright year (from
> diff -c -r dvipsk-5.78a/dvipsk/t1part.c dvipsk-5.78b/dvipsk/t1part.c
> *** dvipsk-5.78a/dvipsk/t1part.c	Wed Feb 25 11:58:46 1998
> --- dvipsk-5.78b/dvipsk/t1part.c	Wed Apr 18 14:42:15 2001
> ***************
> *** 2025,2031 ****
>               break;
>           switch (type)
>           {
> !             case FLG_ASCII:
>                   if(strstr(buf,"currentfile eexec") != NULL)
>                   {
>                       type=FLG_BINARY;
> --- 2025,2031 ----
>               break;
>           switch (type)
>           {
> !             Case FLG_ASCII:
>                   if(strstr(buf,"currentfile eexec") != NULL)
>                   {
>                       type=FLG_BINARY;
> ***************
> *** 2100,2109 ****
> --- 2100,2124 ----
>                   break;
>           }
>       }
> +     /*
> +      * This original distinction prohibits PFA files
> +      * without ``currentfile eexec''!
>       if(type == FLG_ZERO_LINE)
>           return TRUE;
>       else return FALSE;
> +     */
> +     if(type == FLG_ZERO_LINE)
> +         return TRUE;
> +     else if(type == FLG_ASCII)
> +         {
> +          tmpline=mem;
> +          CheckChoosing();
> +          check_vect=1;
> +          return TRUE;
> +         }
> +     else return FALSE;
>   }
> +
>
>   #define FIRST_ASCII     1
>   #define FIRST_BINARY    2
>
>
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