Bug 66877
| Summary: | ZapfDingbats not working | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | chris | ||||||
| Component: | tetex | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2002-07-04 14:39:13 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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Please attach an example file. Thanks. OK - I'll attach a short sample LaTeX source and the generated DVI file. According to the psnfss docs, it should display as 4 different pairs of scissors. Having run latex on it on my machine, xdvi displays it as the following four characters: ! " # $ Thanks. Created attachment 61844 [details]
Short LaTeX file using ZapfDingbats characters
Created attachment 61845 [details]
DVI generated from dingsample.ltx
The DVI file is fine---dvips converts it to a PS file containing scissors. Some xdvi problem. Not on this machine, I'm afraid. dvips converts it to a PS file containing exactly the same four Courier characters (! " # $). _That_ I can't reproduce. Even your attached DVI converts to working PS for me. OK, problem solved - nothing to do with tetex specifically. ZapfDingbats is missing from the urw-fonts package (there's an entry for d050000l.pfb in /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/fonts.dir, but the corresponding d050000l.* files don't exist). That's why ghostscript was substituting Courier instead. Copying those files from the urw-fonts distributed with RH 7.2 solves that problem. For some reason I don't quite understand it also seems to have solved the xdvi problem (after clearing out /var/lib/texmf and re-running xdvi). I'll file a bug against urw-fonts. Thanks. Okay. |
I've just generated a document using latex which has \usepackage{pifont} at the top, and then uses the \ding{nnn} command to generate characters from the ZapfDingbats font. The same document used to work fine under RedHat 7.2, but has now stopped working - xdvi displaying the generated DVI file displays Courier (I think) instead of the expected ZapfDingbats characters. pdflatex on the same file generates a PDF with the correct fonts, though.