Re: [MiKTeX] dvips not rendering some fonts

[Daniel R. <da...@ro...>]

* Evan Cooch wrote, On 11/09/2006 21:24:
> Greetings - using the dvips.exe bundled with latest MikTeX 2.5 build. 
> Have noticed that there seem to be problems with some font elements 
> missing in the PS files generated - entirely influenced by the size of 
> the fonts used.  As soon as I use a font size </small (e.g., 
> /footnotesize) some elements of the file that show up in the DVI file do 
> *not* make it into the PS file via dvips.
>
>
> Here is a minimal example (at bottom of note) - if you use /normalsize, 
> or /small for your font size, no problem. But, if you use /footnotesize, 
> then big problem - since the brackets on one or both of the elements in 
> the align construct are missing. Whats weird is that they show up in the 
> dvi file in yap (using either dvips or PK rendering), but do not show up 
> in the PS file when viewed by GSView 4.8, or in the PDF file generated 
> using ps2pdf.
>
> Whats weird (again) is that this used to work perfectly under the dvips 
> bundled with MikTeX 2.4.
>
> And, to preemptively answer the inevitable 'then don't use 
> /footnotesize' suggestion, not possible - I have embedded little 
> sidebars - *lots* of them - scattered through 3 different books I've 
> written - and if I change them all to (say) /small, then I'll literally 
> have to reformat everything (since most pages contain 1 or more embedded 
> EPS files).
>
> The other option is to try another mode for generating the PDF file - in 
> fact, if I use dvi2pdf, then no problem - everything is there, no matter 
> how small I make the font.
>
> OK, so just use dvi2pdf, right? Well, last time I tried that, I had 
> different font problems (which is why I ended up going the DVI -> PS -> 
> PDF route in the first place). Perhaps these problems have been resolved 
> in the latest release, but do I really want to go through 900+ pages 
> checking every single equation to see if it worked, or not?
>
> Hopefully there is an option I can pass to dvips.exe to get around this 
> problem. Or, perhaps there is something I need to do on the Ghostscript 
> side, since ps2pdf is driven through Ghostscript (albeit a specially 
> compiled version).
>
> Suggestions?
>
> ------<minimal examle>-----------
>
> \documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{article}
>
> % use AMS math package for more control over equations
> \usepackage{amsmath}
> \usepackage{amsfonts}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \small
>
> For our example matrix \textbf{A}, the set of eigenvalues 
> ($\boldsymbol\lambda$)  and eigenvectors (\textbf{w}) are
>
> \begin{align*}
> \boldsymbol\lambda&=\left[1.1071599~~-0.8375654~~-0.2695944\right]\\
> \textbf{w}&=\left[\begin{array}{ccc} 0.998973524 & -0.998197629 & 
> 0.98099138\\
>  0.045114240 &  0.059589232 & -0.18193836\\
>   0.004074772 & -0.007114576 & 0.06748595
> \end{array}\right]
> \end{align*}
>
> \end{document}
>
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Either I got your problem wrong, or it doesn't happen on my PC (Miktex 
2,5, latest update (9/11):
dvi, dvi ->ps, dvi ->pdf all look the same.

Daniel

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