<DIV>Thank you for your response:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I think the probelm started with "pdftex --ini mptopdf". Somehow this screwed up the proper path "c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map" (This was the right path in a successful execution).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I deleted TexLive 2007 completely and reinstalled anew, but the problem didn't go away.</DIV> <DIV>So, I suspect this inititation might have changed the path of window XP.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><BR><B><I>Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On 3/25/07, Steve MC Han wrote:<BR>> Hi, I have trouble with metapost. Could someone give some insight for this?<BR>><BR>> This is the error message.<BR>><BR>> <<! Unable to make mpx file.<br>> l.78 label.bot(btex<BR>> $\hbox{\sf Rectangle}$ etex, (0,-.6u));<BR>> 6
output files written: 2MS4.1 .. 2MS4.8<BR>> Transcript written on 2MS4.log.>><BR>><BR>> So, I tried set the path straight by typing "c:\TexLive2007\bin\win32" at<BR>> command prompt, it magically worked. But with different file, I still have<BR>> trouble with similar error message. This time, even with set path like<BR>> above, it didn't work.<BR>><BR>> <<MPOST 2MS3<br --tex="latex">> This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6)<BR>> (2MS3.mp [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]makempx: Command<BR>> failed: la<BR>> tex mpxerr.tex; see mpxerr.log<BR>> >> 2MS3.mp<BR>> >> 2MS3.mpx<BR>> ! Unable to make mpx file.<BR>> l.156 label.lft(btex<BR>> $A$ etex, z8);<BR>> 11 output files written: 2MS3.0 .. 2MS3.10<BR>> Transcript written on 2MS3.log.>><BR>><BR>> This trouble started after I did "mptopdf". At first, mptopdf didn't create<BR>> pdf files even thoufgh there was no error
message. So, by consulting Contex<BR>> conversion to pdf manual<BR>><BR>> http://tex.aanhet.net/context/mirror/general/sources/mptopdf.pdf<BR>><BR>> I typed "pdftex --ini mptopdf" at prompt command and after that it produced<BR>> pdf files but now mpost didn't work with the above error message. I think<BR>> path<BR>><BR>> c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map<BR>><BR>> is screwed up somehow.<BR><BR>The mechanism has been changed heavily in May 2006 (before that, the<BR>old mechanism sometimes didn't recognize ConTeXt properly), so I was<BR>finally glad that it worked as it should. But no LaTeX user has ever<BR>upgraded ConTeXt before TeXLive 2007 came around. I used mptopdf, but<BR>it never came to my mind to try it with the latex switch.<BR><BR>In the long term it should really be fixed, but as a temporary<BR>workaround you should be able to convert files without the latex<BR>switch. If you need some special settings
(a special font or whatever<BR>else), please post some concrete example. You can just delete<BR>everything latex-related and safely use ConTeXt command with mptopdf<BR>(which really shouldn't be much different).<BR><BR>I'm really sorry for the inconvenience ...<BR><BR>See also http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/023050.html<BR><BR>Mojca<BR><BR><BR>A minimal example for Hans:<BR><BR>verbatimtex<BR>%&latex<BR>\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}<BR>\begin{document}<BR>etex<BR><BR>beginfig(1);<BR>draw btex $A$ etex;<BR>endfig;<BR>end.<BR><BR>(perhaps it would make sense to add a note on<BR>http://www.tug.org/texlive/bugs.html)<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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