the cambridge upload daemon's moving finger wrote:

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: pkfix-helper Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: support/pkfix-helper Summary description: Make PostScript files produced by older dvips versions accessible to pkfix License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

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.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1: When producing font samples (TeX and PostScript), pkfix-helper now knows how to break pages -- useful for documents containing a large number of fonts. Thanks to Rogério Brito for suggesting this feature.

---

Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pkfix-helper.html

(it will change minutely overnight tonight.)

or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/pkfix-helper

i have installed the update, and updated the catalogue repository.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team