Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED],

On 12.03.06, you wrote:

> Redhat tetex-3.0-9.FC4 has 'dvipdfm', not 'dvipdfmx':

Oh, you're right. I installed dvipdfmx as a separate package.

> What do you get from 'dvipdfm[x] -vv test'?

Doesn't seem to produce a different output than yours:

$ dvipdfm -vv t       

t.dvi -> t.pdf
DVI Comment:  TeX output 2006.03.12:2235
[1<[EMAIL 
PROTECTED](TFM:/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncr8t.tfm)(VF:/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/vf/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncr8t.vf(TFM:/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncr8r.tfm)<[EMAIL
 PROTECTED]
fontmap: pncr8r -> uncr8a(8r)
(ENC:/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/psnfss/8r.enc)>)(VF)><[EMAIL 
PROTECTED](TFM:/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncro8t.tfm)(VF:/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/vf/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncro8t.vf(TFM:/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncro8r.tfm)<[EMAIL
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fontmap: pncro8r -> uncr8a(8r)
>)(VF)>](PFB:/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/type1/urw/ncntrsbk/uncr8a.pfb
  Embedding 12 of 316 glyphs
  (subsetting eliminated 29963 bytes)
  Embedded size: 16864 bytes
)
Compression eliminated approximately 1302 bytes
21408 bytes written


$ dvipdfmx -vv t               
t.dvi -> t.pdf
DVI Comment:  TeX output 2006.03.12:2235

** WARNING ** File name="glyphlist.txt" format="map" might be found in
different location than I expected:
** WARNING ** >>   /usr/pkg/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/glyphlist.txt
** WARNING ** >> Please adjust your TEXMF as conformant with:
** WARNING ** >>   http://www.tug.org/ftp/tex/tds-1.1/tds.html#Fonts
** WARNING ** >> I searched it with fooling kpathsea as progname="dvipdfm"
format="other text files".
** WARNING ** >> Default search path for this format file is:
** WARNING ** >>   .:/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/map//
** WARNING ** >> Please read "README" file.
<AGL:glyphlist.txt>[1<[EMAIL 
PROTECTED](TFM:pncr8t[/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncr8t.tfm])(VF:/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/vf/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncr8t.vf(TFM:pncr8r[/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncr8r.tfm])<[EMAIL
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fontmap: pncr8r -> uncr8a(8r)
(Encoding:8r[TeXBase1Encoding])
pdf_font>> Simple font "uncr8a" enc_id=<8r,3> opened at font_id=<pncr8r,0>.
>)(VF)><[EMAIL 
>PROTECTED](TFM:pncro8t[/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncro8t.tfm])(VF:/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/vf/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncro8t.vf(TFM:pncro8r[/usr/pkg/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncro8r.tfm])<[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]
fontmap: pncro8r -> uncr8a(8r)

pdf_font>> Simple font "uncr8a" (enc_id=3) found at id=0.
>)(VF)>](uncr8a[CenturySchL-Roma][TeXBase1Encoding][Type1][12 glyphs][2103
bytes])
Compression eliminated approximately 540 bytes
3713 bytes written


> Can you use dvipdfm?  The configuration is simpler (no CJK) and
> supported by upmap.  Dvipdfmx might be considered "off-topic" for a
> tetex list.

I switched to dvipdfmx because it's much newer and fixed some problems for
me. I can't remember at the moment which ones exactly, but it's obvious
that dvipdfmx also produces much smaller PDFs.

> Every .dvi consuming program uses unique configuration files,
> conventions, etc. so my guess is a broken dvipdfm[x] configuration.
>  The "-vv" option may provide some hints.

I also think so because both implementations are misbehaving in the same
way. So it might be something that is share between them.

Bye, Chris

PS: I've CCed the list. This was probably your initial intention but got
somehow misdirected by gmail.

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