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    <title>CTAN update: pkfix-helper</title>
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    <summary>This should be at your local mirror.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College


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Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: pkfix-helper
Version number: 1.3
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /support/pkfix-helper
Summary description: Preprocess old PostScript files so pkfix can replace their fonts
License type: lppl

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    <title>CTAN Update: pkfix-helper</title>
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    <updated>2011-06-13T22:00:03Z</updated>
    <summary>On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 Scott Pakin submitted an update to the

  pkfix-helper

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      <pre xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 Scott Pakin submitted an update to the

  pkfix-helper

package.

Summary description: Make older PostScript files accessible to pkfix.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: <hr>pkfix is a useful utility for replacing resolution-dependent
bitmapped fonts in a dvips-produced PostScript file with the
corresponding resolution-independent vector fonts.
Unfortunately, pkfix needs to parse certain PostScript
comments that appear only in files produced by dvips
versions later than 5.58 (ca. 1996); it fails to work on

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    <title>CTAN update: pkfix-helper</title>
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    <updated>2020-04-20T22:02:22Z</updated>
    <summary>Scott Pakin submitted an update to the

                pkfix-helper

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      <pre xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Scott Pakin submitted an update to the

                pkfix-helper

package.

Version number: 1.5
License type: lppl

Summary description: Make PostScript files accessible to pkfix

Announcement text:<hr>pkfix is a useful utility for replacing resolution-dependent bitmapped fonts in a
dvips-produced PostScript file with the corresponding resolution-independent vector
fonts.  Unfortunately, pkfix needs to parse certain PostScript comments that appear only

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    <updated>2020-07-22T20:22:39Z</updated>
    <summary>Scott Pakin submitted an update to the

                pkfix-helper

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      <pre xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Scott Pakin submitted an update to the

                pkfix-helper

package.

Version number: 1.6
License type: lppl

Summary description: Make PostScript files accessible to pkfix

Announcement text:<hr>pkfix is a useful utility for replacing resolution-dependent bitmapped fonts in a
dvips-produced PostScript file with the corresponding resolution-independent vector
fonts.  Unfortunately, pkfix needs to parse certain PostScript comments that appear only

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