[tex-live] TL 2007 problems: MarVoSym and dviout.exe woes

[Harald Koenig]

Hi,

summary: 

- marvosym.pfb seems to be somehow broken in TL 2007 
- if mktexpk fails, dviout.exe loops and must be killed with task manager 


details: 

a friend asked me for help:  after updating his TeX system (upon my advice:-(
to TL 2007 on both WinXP and Win2000 he got in trouble using the "marvosym"
package:

the windows previewer (dviout.exe) doesn't display anything and only can be
killed via task manager iff he uses marvosym package.


since I'm using only linux (and never used marvosym before) I tried to get
some ideas using TL 2007 on SUSE 10.2 amd64.

with Linux I get the following error trying to convert marvosym font to pk (my
friend confirmed that WinXY shows the same error for mktexpk):  

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# mktexpk umvs
mktexpk: Running gsftopk umvs 600
gsftopk(k) version 1.19.2/815
ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
[0gs: ERROR: /undefined in �j����
gs: Operand stack:
gs:    --dict:8/12(L)--   --dict:8/12(L)--   Private   --dict:13/16(L)--
--dict:8/12(L)--   CharStrings   --dict:205/206(L)--   n
(\020\2771py\311\2552\316\272u\315\255\356?\352\327p,\035\207\232\0256\252\000'\307\245\345\013j\304\324\024V\310#r\001\321\256\013v?\350\030\363\t\020V?\206)
...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# gsftopk umvs 600
gsftopk(k) version 1.19.2/815
[0gs: ERROR: /undefined in �j����
gs: Operand stack:
gs:    --dict:8/12(L)--   --dict:8/12(L)--   Private   --dict:13/16(L)--
--dict:8/12(L)--   CharStrings   --dict:205/206(L)--   n
(\020\2771py\311\2552\316\272u\315\255\356?\352\327p,\035\207\232\0256\252\000'\307\245\345\013j\304\324\024V\310#r\001\321\256\013v?\350\030\363\t\020V?\206)
...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

the font file

    /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/marvosym/marvosym.pfb

looks ok, it has identical md5sum to the version on CTAN.


I used fontforge to read this font and generate a new newion of marvosym.pfb.
using this newly generated pfb file, mktexpk/gftopk on linux is happy now:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
leer > /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/x86_64-linux/mktexpk umvs
mktexpk: Running gsftopk umvs 600
gsftopk(k) version 1.19.2/815
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mktexpk:
/home/harald/.texlive2007/texmf-var/fonts/pk/modeless/public/marvosym/umvs.600pk:
successfully generated.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


BUT: I mailed that new PFB to my windows friend (that's all phone debugging/consulting)
and he told me that after replacing the PFB file, he god some long and nasty beeeeeeeps 
on his system, but mktexpk still doesn't generate a PK file and dviout.exe
still does not show an output -- still he has to kill dviout.exe with task manager.


this is the original (buggy?) font:

     # ll /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/marvosym/marvosym.pfb.bug
     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62309 Jan 10  2006 /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/marvosym/marvosym.pfb.bug

     # md5sum /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/marvosym/marvosym.pfb.bug
     38f9c9b9eca0bf152da7ad7de3ef9f7f /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/marvosym/marvosym.pfb.bug


questions: 

- are these known problems of marvosym.pfb and/or dviout.exe ?

- can you reproduce/confirm them ?

- any fix/update available ?

- which additional information do you need ?


thanks for any hint,

Harald
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