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# Chapter 4. Q & A

Q: Why is kdvi not displaying anything but a busy cursor? A: It is possible, that kdvi is searching for the pk-fonts from wrong places, and this can be very time consuming if these include network mounted filesystems. You can check for this with strace and see below for a cure.

Q: What can I do when kdvi does not find my PK-fonts? A: You must have correct settings for resolution and Metafont mode. If this does not help, you may set the field 'PK Font Path' in Preferences/Fonts to point to the list of directories to be searched for pk-fonts: /var/lib/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/:/some/other/place You can make kdvi search recursively by adding an extra / at the end of directory name: /var/lib/texmf/fonts// (This works like xdvi's XDVIFONTS environment variable. There is also good (gnu info) documentation available for the kpathsea library that kdvi uses for font searching.) This makes kdvi usable when you have some other tex system than tetex and don't have the texmf.cnf file.

Q: How do I get the font generation to work? A: If you like to enable automatic font generation using MakeTeXPK, you must also supply correct Metafont mode in preferences dialog. When automatic pk-font generation is disabled (menu option) the missing fonts will be logged to file missfont.log in the current directory. It is a good idea to check that the font generation commands in missfont.log are correct before enabling font generation.

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