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>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble when a scale a font, say,
> \font\twicefiverm=cmr5 at 10pt.
> TeX does everything well, and dvips has MakeTeXPK call Metafont
> to generate the appropriate pk file, but when I print the results,
> there are bits of the characters missing, and sometimes entire
> letters are gone (the o is a prime candidate for disappearing).
>
> I use WEB2C 5.81c and dvips 5.485 on a HP9000 mini (Unix).
>
> P.S.
> I also got the pk files for the required magnification from the
> net, and they work fine, so the error must be in something I do
> (or do not do).
>
> Please mail me directly.
>
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>     o                                                                    o
>   / | \    Gert Bultman   <bultman@dgw.rws.nl>   Koningskade 4         / | \
>  o--o--o   Tidal Waters Division                 2596 AA The Hague    o--o--o
>   \ | /    Rijkswaterstaat                       The Netherlands       \ | /
>     o                                                                    o
>
>

This is caused by a bug in the optimiser in HPUX. Remove the -O from your
Makefiles.  (In general do not use -O on HPUX. I have encountered
too many programs buggered up like that.)

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