[OS X TeX] ANNOUNCE: New TeX/gs releases for Mac OS X

[Gary L. Gray]

On 3/28/02 3:14 PM, "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl> wrote:

> On Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 08:50 , Gary L. Gray wrote:
> 
>>   Why are we not using GS 7 now and why is it necessary to use GS 6?
> 
> There is a bug in Quartz which is triggered by later versions of gs. It
> has to do with multiple fonts of different types and the result is that
> one of th etypes of fonts is not displayed. Have a look at
> ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/info/doublefonttest-fail.pdf and
> display it with either Preview or Acrobat.

Is there a work-around for this or should we stick with GS 6? What can we do
to get Apple to fix this? I know it is possible to submit bug reports, but
it would be nice to know exactly what to tell them.

-- Gary


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