Hi, Tomas Rokicki just has finnished an important bugfix concerning the character shifting feature of dvips.
The bug which is not hopefully fixed is that character shifting when activated e.g. via -G1 or -Ppdf has not checked whether the used slots for remapping are free in the font or not. The old bug can be reproduced, e.g. by running dvips -G1 on the dvi file from the following TeX source: \font\x=ptmr7t\x fi\bye You can help us a lot by applying the new patch and reporting success or a problem with the new patch (please try on dvi files loading lots of fonts not just the above mini-example). Since we are close to a new TeX Live release, it'd be great to get this patch quickly tested. To try it out, you need: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20020402.tar.gz http://www.tug.org/teTeX/teTeX-src-beta-20020402-expdvips.patch.gz Then, gzip -dc < teTeX-src-beta-20020402.tar.gz | tar xvf - gunzip teTeX-src-beta-20020402-expdvips.patch.gz cd teTeX-src-beta-20020402 patch -p1 -s < ../teTeX-src-beta-20020402-expdvips.patch and either build everything or just dvips, e.g. cd texk; ./configure; cd dvipsk; make dvips For a full build (installation notes in QuickInstall), you might need the texmf tree of teTeX-beta: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20020207.tar.gz Thomas
