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From: flebbe@pluto.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Olaf Flebbe)
Subject: Re: TeX - dvips fonts
Date: 29 Apr 1993 11:43:56 GMT

qrssprin@polis.spc.uchicago.edu (Yeow-Meng Thum) writes:

>We have two TeX users on our machine. Each time we use dvips
>GFtoPk etc. is invoked and fonts appear to be regenerated for the use of
>each dvips run. Can this be avoided? Is this a problem (with our setup,
>for example)?

Make the fontdir world writable.
 chmod a+w /usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts/pk*
    *and*
 chmod a+r /usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts/pk*/* (THIS is a bug in SLS)

I don't remeber the correct name of the fontdir, but I thin k it is
quite close to it.

Olaf

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