Re: Missing characters
On Wednesday, February 20, 2002, at 08:21 AM, Erik Frisk wrote: I know this has been discussed previously but I have not seen any definitive answers (not sure there are any but...). We have had some problems with pdf:s generated with 'dvips -Ppdf -G0' and distill/ps2pdf. Some characters, mostly '-' or ')', have been missing in the printout although they where present on-screen. One user claims that not using -Ppdf and instead using -Pwww solved the problem for him. My apologies if this is something obvious, but the man / info page for dvips on my system doesn't have a -G option, and -P is used for the printer you are selecting. Does a newer version of dvips have some sort of default pdf / www ``printer''? Some version info (Debian unstable system): $ dvips --version dvips(k) 5.86e kpathsea version 3.3.7 $ dpkg --list tetex-bin ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==-=== ii tetex-bin 1.0.7+20011202 teTeX binary files Thanks. I'm always looking for yet another way to produce PDF from TeX / LaTeX, since the results of such a conversion are so varied. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP keys at my web page: University of Alaska Fairbanks www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle
Re: TeX/LaTeX Fonts
And the fonts are absolutely attrocious on screen. They're obviously bitmapped despite the fact that I have a default installation of LaTeX/TeX on a RedHat 7.1 system which should have a huge amount of fonts... Viewed with what program? If you're using gv to examine the PostScript, you may get better looking results on the screen by choosing (State | gv options | Antialias), then Save, Dismiss. How does it look when printed? Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP keys at my web page: University of Alaska Fairbanks www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Ben Franklin
Re: TeTeX on Redhat and shared texmf TeXLive 6
Graham, Our department's main teaching and research computing resource is now provided by a network of Linux machines, running Red Hat, each of which has local copies of as much software as possible. We keep them up to date by using rpms to update the local copies. Sounds like you need a local RPM mirror. I'm in a similar situation except all my machines are running the Debian distribution. I have a local mirror which gets updated once a day. Whenever I feel a new version is warranted on my machines, I simply ssh to each client, apt-get update, apt-get install tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra. Debian's apt-get program takes care of all the dependencies for you. I don't know if the latest Red Hat will do this sort of thing or not. The alternative is to have an NFS mounted /usr/local where you compile teTeX from scratch whenever a new version comes out. All of your client machines use this instead of a local /usr/local. Depending on how many machines you have and how long it would take you to upgrade the RPM's on all of them, this might be a better way to go. This also has advantages for installing other programs that aren't packaged as RPM's because you only install it once and it's available to everyone. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- Frontier ProgramFairbanks, AK 99775 phone: 907-474-2689 fax: 907-474-2643 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]GNUPG and PGP2 keys at my web site web: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle
