CTAN update: pkfix-helper

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:

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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 PostScript files produced by older versions of dvips. pkfix-helper is a program that attempts to insert newer-dvips comments into an older-dvips PostScript file, thereby making the file suitable for processing by pkfix. pkfix-helper can sometimes process documents fully autonomously but does require the user to verify and, if needed, correct its decisions. Version 1.5 includes a number of improvements, most notably the following: * Choose deterministically among equally likely fonts. * Report ties and repeated fonts even at lower verbosity levels. * Fine-tune some of the font sizes considered (e.g., LaTeX's so-called so-called 11 pt. is really 10.95 pt., and its so-called 17 pt. is really 17.28 pt). * Use pt instead of bp when generating TeX font samples. * More robustly inject the pkfix-helper prologue code. * Fix bug when both --keep and --tex are specified. * Improve the documentation to better describe the argument to --force. Thanks to Arkady Benediktov and Bruno Voisin for their suggestions and problem reports.

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Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Ina Dau --