Thanks Harmut. It surprised me that this bug has gone unnoticed quite long. Thanh On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:12:00PM +0100, Hartmut Henkel wrote:

Dan Luecking wondered in comp.text.tex at Fri Nov 05 20:29:52 CET 2004:

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[By the way, does anyone know why dvips (5.94a, fptex) writes this error message: ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! when making a .ps file (definitely NOT a .pdf file!). I encountered it while running tests of dvips behavior on invalid .pfb files.]

File writet1.c is shared by pdftex and dvips. The pdftex_fail() function there is only used by dvips; for pdftex it's provided by utils.c within pdftexdir.

The wrong dvips message comes from pdftex_fail() in writet1.c. So one should change "PDF" into "PS" there.

When i do this change, a call of dvips using a buggy .pfb file gives:

==> Fatal error occurred, the output PS file is not finished!

pdftex gives instead:

==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!

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