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#1816 dvipng occasionally unable to find fonts

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2016-04-20
2009-12-22
Ben M.
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I hope you find this bug report more helpful that my previous.

  • what you did:

On a fresh installation of MiKTeX 2.8, I used dvipng to generate png from two dvi files. The file relativity-11pt.dvi uses an 11pt font, while relativity-12pt.dvi uses a 12pt font.

  • specify the commands you entered

[Install MiKTeX 2.8]
dvipng relativity-11pt.dvi 2> stderr-11pt-1.txt
dvipng relativity-11pt.dvi 2> stderr-11pt-2.txt
dvipng relativity-12pt.dvi 2> stderr-12pt-1.txt
dvipng relativity-12pt.dvi 2> stderr-12pt-2.txt

  • what you expected

I expected the resulting .png files to match the contents of the .dvis.

  • what instead happened:

For each dvi, the first run of dvipng resulted in several characters missing from the .png. All subsequent runs rendered correctly.

Note: This behavior occurs sporadically, presumably whenever a new font is used.

Discussion

  • Ben M.

    Ben M. - 2009-12-22

    Original dvi, the resulting png, and logs

     
  • Christian Schenk

    • Status: open --> attic