[Pkg-texlive-maint] Re: Bug#369634: Bug#369634: texlive-base-bin: xdvi displays broken fonts

[Jörg Sommer]

Hi Paul,

Paul Vojta <vojta at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> How about the output of:
>
>     % xrdb -query |grep -i xdvi                

xdvi.shrinkButton1:     4
xdvi.shrinkButton2:     5
xdvi.shrinkButton3:     6
xdvi.shrinkFactor:      5
xdvi.sideMargin:        1cm
xdvi.topMargin: 2cm

>     % cat `kpsewhich -progname=xdvi --format='other text files' XDvi`

*mfMode:	ljfour
!
! This is the default anyway:
! *pixelsPerInch:	600
! *shrinkFactor:	8
!
! GO! EUROPE! :-)
*paper:		a4
!
*wwwBrowser:	netscape

>     % cat ~/.xdvirc

!!! ~/.xdvirc, used by xdvi(1) to save user preferences.
!!!
!!! Do not edit this file, it will be overwritten by xdvi.
!!! This file contains resources that have been set via the
!!! menus/dialogs. The contents of this file will override
!!! the entries in your ~/.Xdefaults file (but not the command
!!! line arguments passed to xdvi). Remove this file
!!! if you want to get rid of all these customizations,
!!! or start xdvi with the `-q' option to ignore this file.
!!!
xdvi.mouseMode:	0
xdvi.fileHistory:	0 /tmp/mini.dvi
xdvi.gamma:	0.019907
xdvi.useTeXPages:	True
xdvi.postscript:	1
xdvi.keepPosition:	False
xdvi.gsAlpha:	False

The xdvi.gamma line caused the error. Problem solved. Thanks.

Regards, Jörg.
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