CTAN update: pkfix-helper

[CTAN Announcements]

On Saturday, 8 August 2009, Scott Pakin submitted an update to the

   pkfix-helper

package.

It should soon be at your favorite mirror.

Location on CTAN: /support/pkfix-helper
Summary description: Make PostScript files accessible to pkfix
License type: lppl

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 1.2 of pkfix-helper provides a --cache option that can speed
up the processing of multiple PostScript files by analyzing TFM font
metrics once, storing the results in a specified cache file, and
reusing that cache file on subsequent runs.  This feature was
requested by M. S. Dousti.

The accompanying encoding-samples.pdf document, which shows samples of
various TeX font encodings to help a user identify obscure document
fonts, has been enhanced to include samples of eufm10, msam10, msbm10,
wasy10, ptmr8r, cmtex10, and stmary10.  This enhancement was requested
by Rogério Brito.
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/support/pkfix-helper
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pkfix-helper
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team,

     Joachim Schrod