Re: [PyX-devel] r3224 problem

[Michael J G. <mic...@us...>]

André Wobst venit, vidit, dixit 12.10.2011 14:35:
> Hi, Michael,
> 
> Am 12.10.2011 um 09:18 schrieb Michael J Gruber:
>>> Anyway, could you try whether changeset 3229 ("pop from the end of
>>> t1stack in gathercalls") fixes the issue. Thanks!
>>
>> Yes, version 30815 fixes it ;)
> 
> Great, thanks for testing!
> 
>>> (By the way we obviously have different version of cmr10 etc. ...)
>>
>> How is this obvious? (OK, I guess you did test 3227/3228...) Shouldn't
>> they be mostly the same? My pfb's are the bluesky T1, as distributed by
>> the AMS, and included in Fedora 15. Font metrics from texlive 2007 as
>> included in Fedora 15 (old, I know; Fedora+texlive=long story).
> 
> 
> Well, it is not obvious at first, but it is obvious for me after spending some time last night to get the texttopath feature back to work on my system. It turns out that the cmr10.pfb has been updated lately (and you need an implementation of the flex machinery realized by othersubr 0 to 2 to properly render the path – the details can be found in the T1 spec). Anyway, here is the cmr10.pfb from my system (I'm using TeXLive 2011):
> 
> andre@mbp:~$ t1disasm $(kpsewhich cmr10.pfb)|head
> %!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: CMR10 003.002
> %%Title: CMR10
> %Version: 003.002
> %%CreationDate: Mon Jul 13 16:17:00 2009
> %%Creator: David M. Jones
> %Copyright: Copyright (c) 1997, 2009 American Mathematical Society
> %Copyright:  (<http://www.ams.org>), with Reserved Font Name CMR10.
> % This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
> % This license is in the accompanying file OFL.txt, and is also
> % available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL.
> 
> I'm pretty sure you get something this on your system:
> 
> %!PS-AdobeFont-1.1: CMR10 1.00B
> %%CreationDate: 1992 Feb 19 19:54:52
> % Copyright (C) 1997 American Mathematical Society.  All Rights Reserved.
> ...

Exactly.

> 
> Internally the fonts are quite different. Also the file size has changed: the old versions was 26882 bytes in size while the new one has 35752 bytes.
> 

Oh my dear, I'm glad you switched to TL11 before I did. I would have
been clueless.

Cheers,
Michael