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Olaf Weber wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Lionel Lovitch writes:
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To use Textures/Latex on my Mac where I have installed AGaramon and
Optima fonts
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<pre wrap="">I need to create the corresponding pad and pop metric suitcases.
So I need to feed the EdMetrics application with the associated .pl
annd .vpl files.
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<pre wrap="">Back in my office in the university, where I now use a PC with RedHat
Linux version 8.0 as OS,
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<pre wrap="">I ran the tftopl application on the unaccompanied .tfm files and there
was no problem in creating the .pl files.
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<pre wrap="">Instead, when I try running vftovp on the pairs of .tfm and .vf files
I get into serious trouble:
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<pre wrap="">I receive reports of "Bad VF file: Character ... in font 0 will be
ignored" on standard error output.
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<pre wrap="">I am attaching two examples of this error output with the pairs of
.tfm and .vf files of the pop package
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<pre wrap="">together with a copy of the vftovp application I am using.
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<pre wrap="">Can you please advise me how to proceed?
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It looks like the error messages don't really make this clear. When
processing popb7t.vf, the vftovp program looks for popb8r.tfm -- this
name is actually encoded in the vf file.
Adding that tfm file in the search path allows vftovp to run to
completion. These tfm files should have been packaged with the
others. A related problem seems to be that not all the tfm files
requested in this manner seem to be (readily?) available on CTAN. I
think it should be possible to generate them from the afm files, but
did not further investigate.
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Olaf<br>
thanks a lot<br>
I put all the tfm and vf files into the same subdirectory<br>
and repeated the vftovp procedure <br>
and I got no complaints<br>
regards<br>
lionel lovitch<br>
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