Bug 154675

Summary:	xdvi can't treat Japanese dvi file
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Masaru Nomiya <nomiya>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Mike Fabian <mfabian>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	werner
Version:	Beta 6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Masaru Nomiya 2006-03-02 12:45:13 UTC

When I try to view a Japanese dvi, xdvi shows the error message as follows;

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+359/600 --dpi 959 rml
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for rml.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
xdvi 22.84.9 (Xaw toolkit): events.c:4144: Shouldn't happen: Segmentation fault - trying to clean up and aborting ...

At this time. it produces missfont.log;

mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+359/600 --dpi 959 rml

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2006-03-02 15:21:41 UTC

Japanese always requires patches which was done for dvips.
The patched version of dvips is called pdvips.  We do not
include patches for Japanese into the normal program because
those patches arn't accepted by the main stream developers.
Beside this it looks like a Japanese font is missed.

Comment 2 Mike Fabian 2006-03-02 15:38:06 UTC

You have to use xgdvi from the package TeX-Guy for Japanese ptex.

See also:

/usr/share/doc/packages/te_ptex/README.SuSE.ptex

Closing as WORKSFORME.