[texhax] Q: how to generate PS font from MF input?

[D. R. Evans]

William Adams said the following at 04/14/2008 10:13 AM :
> On Apr 14, 2008, at 10:46 AM, D. R. Evans wrote:
> 
>> Naively, it seems like I should just be able to put pal10.mf  
>> somewhere and
>> pdftex should be able to do everything necessary.
> 
> 
> If memory serves, it does that if the .mf is in the same directory as  
> the .tex file.

Wow! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

There I was, messing with all kinds of things in ~/texmf and /.texmf-var; I
never for a moment thought of putting the .mf file in the same directory as
the .tex file.

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