[Bug 437667] Review Request: dvipdfm - A DVI to PDF converter

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Summary: Review Request: dvipdfm - A DVI to PDF converter


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437667





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2008-03-16 11:53 EST -------
The base page is 
http://gaspra.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/
you used the dvipdfmx one...

There is a security issue in dvipdft since it generates files in tmp
with predictible names. In texlive dvipdfm the script comes from another
place and is furthermore patched.

A dot is missing at the end of %description.

the doc shipped should be the dvi version or even better the pdf
version.

To have the dvi, you should have a 

BuildRequires: tex(tex)

and during build do something along
pushd doc
tex dvipdfm
popd

and add
%docs doc/dvipdfm.dvi

To have a pdf it is less obvious since the preferred way seems to
be using dvipdfm itself, but since it is not installed it is not obvious
that it will succeed. You can try anyway

pushd doc
tex dvipdfm
../dvipdfm dvipdfm
popd
and verify that it builds in mock, with an updated texlive that doesn't
contain the dvipdfm files that should be in dvipdfm.


Last issue regards the differences between config files and corresponding
map files.

Differences are:
D "zcat -f %i | gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a0 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2
-dUseFlateCompression=true -sOutputFile=%o - -c quit"

versus (-dSAFER added in texlive):

D "zcat -f %i | gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a0 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2
-dUseFlateCompression=true -dSAFER -sOutputFile=%o - -c quit"


a4 in texlive
-p letter
+p a4

The maps are, in dvipdfm the shipped maps:
f cmr.map
f psbase14.map
f lw35urw.map

In texlive, the font map created by updmap (and another map) are used:
f cm-dvipdfm-fix.map
f dvipdfm.map


It seems to me that the dvipdfm config file in texlive is better, but I am 
far from being an expert in this matter.



It seems to me that the config file in texlive-texmf can be kept
instead of using the one in dvipdfm. The map and enc files of dvipdfm
should still be shipped, though unused in the default fedora config.

A Requires: tex(tex) is also certainly missing, I don't think that 
dvipdfm will be ok without fonts. These fonts should be brought in 
by kpathsea, but I think that it is better not to count on it.

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