Comment 3 for bug 40836

Hello "buggs". Are you still facing this problem? In fact there seems to be additional issues, which I will list below.

First, regarding 8r.enc, it is referring to an 8-bit font encoding for roman (as in, serif) glyphs, hence the "8" and "r" (for Roman) in the encoding file name. 8-bit means Type 1 [T1] font encoding, so I modified your example a little to enforce Type 1 font encoding as necessary. But it seems to me it is unclear what "8r.enc" is referring to, because although I can tell it's 8-bit and Roman, there is insufficient info as to exactly what font family is being referred to. Not your fault at all, I must emphasize, just an observation of mine.

\documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{txfonts} %\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} %comment in or out as needed

\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

Here are my further observations:

1) In the output you provided, you issued the "dvips" command. Notice that in your configuration, calling dvips actually calls not the "standard" version of dvips by Tom Rokicki, but rather a version linked to pTeX by the ASCII corp in Japan. Here's part of your output from calling dvips:

This is dvips(k) p1.7a Copyright 2005 ASCII Corp.(<email address hidden>)

2) So I used a Japan-based TeX distro for Windoz$ called W32TeX, by Akira Kakuto, which I installed this alternate version. When I call dvips and dvipsk I get the following:

dvips -Ppdf bug40836.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2006.06.09:1758' -> bug40836.ps
<texc.pro><alt-rule.pro><tx8r.enc><texps.pro>. [1]

dvipsk -Ppdf bug40836.dvi
This is dvips(k) p1.7a Copyright 2005 ASCII Corp.(<email address hidden>)
based on dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2006.06.09:1758' -> bug40836.ps
<texc.pro><alt-rule.pro><tx8r.enc><texps.pro>. [1]

3) Did you happen to install the dvipsk-ja package from universe repository?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/tex/dvipsk-ja

In the contents of dvipsk-ja package (breezy, dapper, does not matter which ver of Ubuntu), there is the binary usr/bin/dvips. Therefore I suspect that if dvipsk-ja has been installed, your original version of dvips by Rokicki in tetex3 is being overwritten.

4) Seems to me the "8r.enc" should be referring to "tx8r.enc". So, alternatively, what happens if you try to refresh your font maps by issuing the "updmap" command?

I hope we will be able to shed more light on your problem. Thanks.