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Linguist
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Font Encoding in a Postscript Document

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Hello,

This seems like it should be a pretty common problem, so I'm not sure what I'm missing.

When I compile a document with the fontenc package (T1 option) to postscript, the text doesn't display.

Actually, the text does display if I also have mathptmx loaded. Likewise, if I have tipa loaded, any text specified as IPA (\textipa) will display correctly.

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%LaTeX => (DVI =>) PS => PDF
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
  \lipsum
\end{document}
Note, that if I compile to DVI the text shows up. Likewise, this isn't a problem in the conversion of PS to PDF; when I view the PS document directly, there's no text. I'm using MiKTeX 2.9.

Thanks for any insights on what's going on here.

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