[tex-live] PK fonts characters left blank by "dvips -P pdf" on windows

[Cezary Śliwa]

Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>
>>> it has never (ime) worked for documents that required bitmap fonts --
>>> since there has never been a metafont mode for a 8000dpi printer.
>>>        
>> dpdfezzz is used on Linux.
>>      
> what linux?  (it's not available on mine, that i can see.)
>
>    
from 2010/texmf-dist/metafont/misc/modes.mf :

% Reported by Silas Brown, 4 April 2003, via Debian bug 184875.
% {\tt dvips -Ppdf} wants 8000$\,$dpi fonts, so define a mode for that.
mode_def dpdfezzz =                 %\[ dvips -Ppdf (8000dpi)
   mode_param (pixels_per_inch, 4000 * 2);
   mode_param (blacker, 0);
   mode_param (fillin, 0);
   mode_param (o_correction, 1);
   mode_common_setup_;
enddef;


The TeX Live platform name is x86_64-linux.

$ uname -a
Linux sl2klast-n0.ifpan.edu.pl 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5xen #1 SMP Wed Sep 29 
13:30:21 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.5 (Final)


Best regards,
Cezary Sliwa