[tex-live] TL2017's dvipdfmx prints warnings

Bob Tennent rdt at cs.queensu.ca
Sat Jan 20 16:16:16 CET 2018


 >|Ever since TeXLive 2017 came out, dvipdfmx is throwing weird warning
 >|messages when I use garamond as the font, when the exact same document
 >|involves no such warnings in prior years of TeXLive.
 >|
 >|Consider the following tiny sample, which we can call "demo.tex"
 >|
 >|\documentclass{article}
 >|\usepackage[mdugm]{mathdesign}
 >|\begin{document}
 >|[foo]
 >|\end{document}
 >|
 >|If I run `latex demo.tex`, followed by `dvipdfmx demo`, I do get a pdf
 >|created but the following messages get shown:
 >|
 >|  atemplate-2 -> atemplate-2.pdf
 >|  [1]
 >|  xdvipdfmx:warning: Glyph width mismatch for TFM and font (md-gmr8t)
 >|  xdvipdfmx:warning: TFM: 375.402 vs. Type1 font: 374
 >|  xdvipdfmx:warning: Glyph width mismatch for TFM and font (md-gmr8t)
 >|  xdvipdfmx:warning: TFM: 375.402 vs. Type1 font: 374
 >|
 >|These never appeared prior to TeXLive 2017, even with the exact same
 >|sample document and even though I have the garamond fonts installed in the
 >|same location.  (Namely, I have a symlink in
 >|$TL2017/texmf-local/fonts/type1 called "urw" that points to a folder in my
 >|$HOME.  This has worked flawlessly for years.) I have this problem on
 >|multiple machines.
 >|
 >|I'm not a TeX expert, but I don't see why there would suddenly be a
 >|mismatch between metrics and what the font says.  Those garamond fonts
 >|have not changed in years as far as I know.  I got them from the
 >|"garamond" package on CTAN, which hasn't changed in years.  I seem to
 >|recall the directions in there told me that all I need are: ugmm8a.pfb,
 >|ugmmi8a.pfb, ugmr8a.pfb, and ugmri8a.pfb.  That is indeed what is in the
 >|dir that my symlink points to.

Your MWE uses 

\usepackage[mdugm]{mathdesign}

which provides its own versions of the garamond fonts. So
it looks to me like there's an issue with the mathdesign
package.

Bob T.


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