Bug#397347: tetex-bin: Font problem with the latest dvips

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 06.11.06 François Valenduc (francois.valenduc@skynet.be) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse a écrit :
> > On 06.11.06 François Valenduc (francois.valenduc@skynet.be) wrote:

Hi,

> >> Since one of the last upgrades of tetex-bin, I get such errors when
> >> I convert dvi document to pdf:
> >>
> >> dvips: Font ecrm2074 at 8000 not found; scaling 600 instead.
> >> dvips: Such scaling will generate extremely poor output.
> >>
> >> Altough the difference in font qualities is not too important, I
> >> would like to know if this is normal or if I am missing a
> >> package which provides the requested font.
> >>     
> > I've doubt, that it has something to do with the tetex-bin
> > upgrade.
> >
> > 1. Could you send a minimal example?
> > 2. Do you have the package cm-super installed. If yes: which
> >    version?
> >
> It was indeed not caused any tetex-bin upgrade. As you suggested, I
> installed the cm-super package and the error messages disappeared.
> 
OK, fine. Would be nice if you could ask a user group next time
before submitting a bug.

> Maybe I always had the problem but with the latest version of dvips
> included in the tetex-bin package, the error message was now
> displayed and not before?
> 
AFAICT we did not modify the dvips code (Frank?). So the error
message should have been there before.

Can we close that bug now?

H.
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