[comp.text.tex] dvipage randomly dropping characters on sun3 with PK fonts

gpz@ESD.3Com.COM (G. Paul Ziemba) (12/29/90)

I'm perplexed. I used to use the dvipage that came with the TeX 2.95
distribution. This old version could read GF fonts, but not PK
fonts. It worked fine.

I recently built TeX 3.0 for my sun3, and also built the new dvipage
that came with it (I would use dvipage version numbers if I could
figure out what they were). It still works fine with GF fonts.

I tried using it with PK fonts, but it drops about 10% of the characters
on each line, in no particular pattern. The character loss seems to
be worst when I come to a page while advancing forward through the
document. If I move backwards to a page, it often is displayed correctly.
If I re-open the dvi file, the page gets re-drawn incorrectly (i.e.,
characters are dropped).

I am running SunOS 3.5, and the monitor is monochrome. I'm using
118 DPI resolution fonts.

Has anyone experienced this problem? Can anyone clue me in to
what I might be doing wrong?

 Thanks

 ~!paul
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