Hi all,<br> I have a problem with fonts and I am not sure where to start. Here is the rundown<br><br>I have two texlive installs on different machines. On a linux (debian) machine I have texlive-2007 and i can get everything to work without any problems. It is my windows machien running texlive-2008 that causes my problems.<br>
<br>I am installing the MinionPro font package, which is where the problem happens.<br><br>I followed the CTAN directions for installing MinionPro and it works seamlessly on my linux machine, and has for a while. But I cannot get it to work on the windows machine.<br>
<br>When I use the minionpro package in a document, it compiles fine until the last moment:<br><br>---- <br clear="all">!pdfTeX error: pdflatex.exe (file MinionPro-It-Base-ab): Font MinionPro-It-Base-ab at 545 not found<br>
==> Fatal error occured, no output PDF file produced!<br>kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 0+545/600 --dpi 545 MinionPro-It-Base-ab<br>kpathsea: Appending font creating commands to missfont.log.<br>
----<br><br>if i run the mktexpk command myself <br>----<br>C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32>mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 0+545/600 --dpi 545 MinionPro-It-Base-ab<br>Cannot find MinionPro-It-Base-ab.mf .<br>
I try ps2pk --> gsftopk --> ttf2pk --> hbf2gf.<br>ps2pk cannot be used.<br>I try gsftopk.<br>gsftopk.exe MinionPro-It-Base-ab 545<br>gsftopk cannot be used.<br>Next I try ttf2pk.<br>ttf2pk.exe -q MinionPro-It-Base-ab 545<br>
ttf2pk failed.<br>Finally I try hbf2gf.<br>hbf2gf.exe -q -p MinionPro-It-Base-ab 545<br>All trials failed.<br>-- <br><br>Now, there are no minionpro .mf files /anywhere/ on my system. they also do not exist on my linux texlive2007 system, but it still works fine. what is an mf file, and where does it come from? is there a script i need to run specifically for texlive 2008 to generate these?<br>
<br>also, check out:<br><br>---<br>C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32>kpsewhich MinionPro-It-Base-ab.tfm<br>c:/Program Files/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/fonts/tfm/adobe/minionpro/MinionPro-It-Base-ab.tfm<br>C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32>kpsewhich MinionPro-It-Base-ab.mf<br>
<empty result ><br>---<br><br>Whats /really/ causing this mf problem? the tfms i generated ages ago before i switched to texlive, i think i used tetex at the time but it has been years. do i suddenly need to regenerate these for 2008?<br>
<br>any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Jim<br><br>---<br>James Young, B.Sc.<br>Ph.D. Candidate<br>Interactions laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary<br>
2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4<br>Phone: +1.403.210.9502<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:jim.young@ucalgary.ca" target="_blank">jim.young@ucalgary.ca</a><br>URL: <a href="http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/%7Ejyoung/" target="_blank">http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~jyoung/</a><br>