mktexpk

[Bob Howlett]

Concerning my previous message: I've found what I changed.
I got mktexpk.exe from an earlier version of fptex
(it seems to have the date 9th March 1999) instead of the
one from windvi-0_66-pre1.zip.

Bob

Fabrice POPINEAU wrote:
> 
> > I would have thought that Metafont ought to be the first choice, since
> > the
> > type 1 versions of the standard TeX fonts are copied from the metafont
> > produced versions -- although I am not claiming to be able to detect any
> > difference.
> 
> Thomas Esser put the type1 choice first in teTeX, so is fpTeX since it
> is the same texmf tree.
> 
> > But anyway, to test this I deleted cmr10.720pk and commented
> > out the line in bsr.map referring to cmr10, and ran windvi on some
> > file that needed the font. Metafont did not run: the font was not made.
> > After uncommenting the line in bsr.map, gsftopk made the font.
> 
> Yes, something is wrong. How does dvips behave in the same situation?
> If kpathsea can't find the file, it will try to build it.
> 
> Fabrice