I just deleted my .texlive2012 and
rebuild documentation (by explicitly removing all *.dvi files and octave.pdf)
and it still looks fine.
E.g. in the interpreter/
$ ls -tl *.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 3371583 Mar 23 13:51 octave.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 26136 Mar 23 13:36 splinefit6.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 21646 Mar 23 13:36 splinefit4.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 15550 Mar 23 13:36 splinefit3.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 24353 Mar 23 13:36 splinefit2.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 21356 Mar 23 13:36 splinefit1.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 22286 Mar 23 13:36 spcholperm.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 406577 Mar 23 13:36 spchol.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 31864 Mar 23 13:36 spmatrix.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 6134 Mar 23 13:36 grid.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 5068 Mar 23 13:36 gplot.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 14745 Mar 23 13:35 griddata.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 7724 Mar 23 13:31 extended.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 7714 Mar 23 13:31 plot3.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 21218 Mar 23 13:31 mesh.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 6085 Mar 23 13:31 polar.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 7366 Mar 23 13:31 errorbar.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 5608 Mar 23 13:31 hist.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 5332 Mar 23 13:31 plot.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 13331 Mar 23 13:31 interpderiv2.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 6655 Mar 23 13:31 interpderiv1.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 11917 Mar 23 13:31 interpn.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 7867 Mar 23 13:31 interpft.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 9227 Mar 23 13:31 inpolygon.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 5056 Mar 23 13:31 delaunay.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 7456 Mar 23 13:31 convhull.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 4882 Mar 23 13:31 triplot.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 7230 Mar 23 13:31 voronoi.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 55379 Mar 23 12:54 octave_logo.pdf
And in the refcard/
-legal.log refcard-letter.log
address@hidden refcard]$ ls -lt
total 1480
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 1646 Mar 23 13:50 refcard-letter.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 130452 Mar 23 13:50 refcard-letter.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 269384 Mar 23 13:50
refcard-letter.ps-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 30972 Mar 23 13:50 refcard-letter.dvi
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 1643 Mar 23 13:50 refcard-legal.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 130339 Mar 23 13:50 refcard-legal.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 269486 Mar 23 13:50
refcard-legal.ps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 31188 Mar 23 13:49 refcard-legal.dvi
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 1634 Mar 23 13:49 refcard-a4.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 130207 Mar 23 13:49 refcard-a4.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 269366 Mar 23 13:49
refcard-a4.ps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 30900 Mar 23 13:49 refcard-a4.dvi
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 64293 Mar 23 13:01 Makefile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 78329 Mar 23 12:55 Makefile.in
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 2042 Mar 23 12:54 Makefile.am
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 828 Mar 23 12:54 refcard-a4.tex
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 840 Mar 23 12:54 refcard-legal.tex
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 866 Mar 23 12:54 refcard-letter.tex
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dima dima 34222 Mar 23 12:54 refcard.tex