[Fontinst] Alternates failing

[Adrian Heathcote]

Lars

Thanks for the response. I worked out what the problem was: the font 
was misnamed: it should have been padr8l and padri8l. When I changed it 
it all suddenly worked. (I have to say the naming information was left 
out of Alan H.'s book---or, rather, there were contrary indicators; 
just enough to stump a neophyte!)

Thanks

Adrian Heathcote


On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 10:20  PM, Lars Hellström wrote:

> At 05.05 +0100 2002-12-19, Adrian Heathcote wrote:
>> Hi once again
>>
>> Having gone through the entire installation process for the Agaramond
>> alternatives, I find that something must have gone wrong at a
>> fundamental level.
>>
>> Having tried to follow Alan Hoenig's instructions to the letter, there
>> is an error in the output of Dvips. The error reads: Warning module
>> writet1 of dvips (file padr7l): character 117 is mapped to .notdef.
>>
>> (This should have been a long-tailed Q)
>>
>> My map file entry here is just
>>
>> padr7l AGaramondAlt-Regular <padr7l.pfb
>>
>> And similar for the italic.
>
> Sounds like a case of "garbage in, garbage out". Something seems to 
> have
> told fontinst that slot 117 in padr7l contains a glyph, but the PFB 
> doesn't
> agree. First order of business should then be to compare the AFM, MTX, 
> and
> (encoding vector in the) PFB for the AGaramondAlt-Regular font.
>
> BTW, I think 7a is now the (according to fontname) standard variant 
> code
> for fonts such as this one. (Or does maybe "alternate encoding" refers 
> to
> something else?)
>
> Lars Hellström
>
>
>