[LON-CAPA-admin] Fedora 9, perl 5.10 and LON-CAPA 2.7.1

[Michael Dugdale]

Yes, that fixed it.  Thanks again Stuart.  And the pdf generation does go by *much* faster on my boxes.

Regard,
Michael Dugdale
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From: lon-capa-admin-admin at mail.lon-capa.org [lon-capa-admin-admin at mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of H.K. Ng [hkng at fsu.edu]
Sent: December 5, 2008 2:26 PM
To: lon-capa-admin at mail.lon-capa.org
Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-admin] Fedora 9, perl 5.10 and LON-CAPA 2.7.1

Thanks Stuart, seem to fix it. Also, the pdf file generation appears
to go faster. -hk


At 10:39 AM 12/5/2008, you wrote:
>Michael and Hon-Kie,
>
>The problem appears to be related to the generation of missing fonts.
>
>If you replace the following files in /home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache
>
>londefdef.pm
>lonprintout.pm
>
>with versions 1.390.2.2 and 1.536.2.3 respectively, using the
>following commands:
>
>wget -O lonprintout.pm
>'http://source.loncapa.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/loncom/interface/lonprintout.pm?rev=1.536.2.3;content-type=text%2Fplain'
>
>cp lonprintout.pm /home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache
>
>wget -O londefdef.pm
>'http://source.loncapa.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/loncom/xml/londefdef.pm?rev=1.390.2.2;content-type=text%2Fplain'
>
>cp londefdef.pm /home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache
>
>/etc/init.d/httpd reload
>
>
>text will be included in the printouts generated by LON-CAPA.
>
>
>Stuart Raeburn
>MSU LON-CAPA group
>
>Quoting Michael Dugdale <michael.dugdale at johnabbott.qc.ca>:
>
>>Hi H.K.,
>>
>>Thanks for pointing this out... I am indeed seeing the same thing.
>>Latex math-mode seems to work, but plain text is missing from the pdf.
>>The .tex- file is well-formatted, and I can make the pdf by hand
>>through pdflatex, through latex -> divpdf  and through
>>latex->dvips->ps2pdf.  The hand-generated pdf looks fine.
>>
>>Don't know what to make of it, but thanks for pointing it out.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Michael Dugdale
>>
>>
>>On 5-Dec-08, at 8:53 AM, H.K. Ng wrote:
>>
>>>Michael,
>>>
>>>Do you have any trouble printing (generating pdf files) using Fedora
>>>9 and loncapa 2.7.1? It seems that the pdf files do not contain any
>>>letters - essentially blank, just lines, if there is any graphics.
>>>The tex files have all the letters and somewhere during the
>>>conversion progress, the letters got drop. Wonder if it is an issue
>>>with fonts files. I have submitted a bug report.
>>>
>>>-hk
>
>
>
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