(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***) Package: kdvi Version: 1.0 Old Bugnum = 1693 Fixed = No System = Solaris 2.5.1 Distrib = Source code in tar.gz format ======================== kdvi uses an old version of the kpathsea library. The latest versions of TeX use 3.2.0. This way no fonts are found. I am using PostScript fonts. Please upgrade!!
Hello some time ago you submitted a bug report concerning the kdvi previewer. In essence the problem was that kdvi did not find "texmf.cnf" and therefore did not find the directory where pk- or virtual fonts were stored. Please accept my apologies if your bug report was not properly answered for a long time. I took up the maintenance of KDVI only a couple of months ago and I was very busy recently. The problem has been solved now and the new kdvi which will be part of the KDE 2.0 distribution will (hopefully!) not show the bug anymore. If you want to try kdvi right now please make sure that a) you have a recent version of TeX preferably the teTeX distribution installed. Make sure that the TeX installation tree contains the file "web2c/texmf.cnf". Right now kdvi causes problems with older TeX distributions e.g. distributions which are often found on Solaris machines. b) make sure that you use the NEWEST CVS sources. Start with a fresh source tree and run "make -f Makefile.cvs" and "./configure ...". That way you will make sure that there are no old configuration files lying about. I am currently working on a version of kdvi which works with all TeX distributions even very old ones. This new font finding scheme will however not be finished in time for KDE2.0. Thus I ask four your patience. KDE2.1 will probably come with a greatly improved kdvi which solves many of the still outstanding problems. KDVI should now run on all major Linux distributions. Please let me know if you are experiencing problems. Regards Stefan.
*** Bug 212657 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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