bug in newest dvipdfmx

[instanton]

Dear list,
 
I wrote a message to this list 5 days ago on a problem in using the newest dvipdfmx in MiKTeX on CJK tex generated dvi files but recieved no response. Today someone on the Chinese CTeX bbs reported that by use of a process monitor the problem is tracked down: dvipdfmx couldn't find UGBK.sfd although it is installed on the system as usual. Another minor problem is that dvipdfmx cannot find the file texglyphlist.txt, which causes some warning messages even when dvipdfmx is used over non CJK files. I hope these problem will be fixed soon.
 
 
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[Ulrike Fischer-2]

am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 um 13:54 schrieb instanton:

> Dear list,
>  
> I wrote a message to this list 5 days ago on a problem in using the
> newest dvipdfmx in MiKTeX on CJK tex generated dvi files but
> recieved no response. Today someone on the Chinese CTeX bbs reported
> that by use of a process monitor the problem is tracked down:
> dvipdfmx couldn't find UGBK.sfd although it is installed on the
> system as usual. Another minor problem is that dvipdfmx cannot find
> the file texglyphlist.txt, which causes some warning messages even
> when dvipdfmx is used over non CJK files. I hope these problem will be fixed soon.

You will probably get better help if you notify the dvipdfmx team:

http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx/

There is also a mailing list.

But I think they will need more informations, e.g. minimal example,
log-files, the fonts used, where they are installed etc.


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[instanton]

No, this is a MiKTeX specific problem. No users of other TeX releases complained about the new dvipdfmx.

Oh, I should put this first: after sending the last message I checked today's update and found that the problem with UGBK.sfd seems to have been resolved. However the same problem with UTF8 encoded CJK tex files persists. I suppose dvipdfmx might not be able to find Unicode.sfd, though it is installed also.


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----- Original Message -----
From: Ulrike Fischer
To: miktex-users
Sent: 2008-06-25, 20:09:15
Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] bug in newest dvipdfmx


am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 um 13:54 schrieb instanton:

> Dear list,
>
> I wrote a message to this list 5 days ago on a problem in using the
> newest dvipdfmx in MiKTeX on CJK tex generated dvi files but
> recieved no response. Today someone on the Chinese CTeX bbs reported
> that by use of a process monitor the problem is tracked down:
> dvipdfmx couldn't find UGBK.sfd although it is installed on the
> system as usual. Another minor problem is that dvipdfmx cannot find
> the file texglyphlist.txt, which causes some warning messages even
> when dvipdfmx is used over non CJK files. I hope these problem will be fixed soon.

You will probably get better help if you notify the dvipdfmx team:

http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx/

There is also a mailing list.

But I think they will need more informations, e.g. minimal example,
log-files, the fonts used, where they are installed etc.


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Ulrike Fischer
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[Ulrike Fischer-2]

am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 um 14:29 schrieb instanton:

> No, this is a MiKTeX specific problem. No users of other TeX
> releases complained about the new dvipdfmx.

Even then. I had a miktex specific problem with xdvipdfmx + pstricks
and it was the xdvipdfmx developer which applied a patch to the
sources that miktex could pick up (and which solved the problem).

Also you don't know how much users of other releases are using the
newest version. Miktex is very fast at adapting changes.



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[instanton]

Thanks for the suggests.

In this case it is more likely depends on Christian to fix the problem, because the recent change in dvipdfmx was actually trigered by the discussions of a small group of advanced Chinese users which aims at resolving a long-standing problem in the effect of Chinese font display in Adobe Reader. The new dvipdfmx is well tested by this small group of Chinese people in Chinese environment but unfortunately not under MiKTeX. Thanks anyway.

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2008-06-25
----- Original Message -----
From: Ulrike Fischer
To: miktex-users
Sent: 2008-06-25, 20:45:22
Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] bug in newest dvipdfmx


am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 um 14:29 schrieb instanton:

> No, this is a MiKTeX specific problem. No users of other TeX
> releases complained about the new dvipdfmx.

Even then. I had a miktex specific problem with xdvipdfmx + pstricks
and it was the xdvipdfmx developer which applied a patch to the
sources that miktex could pick up (and which solved the problem).

Also you don't know how much users of other releases are using the
newest version. Miktex is very fast at adapting changes.



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