[fptex] pk generation

[Rolf Niepraschk]

Bob Howlett wrote:
> 
> I believe that the way things are organized at present, if windvi
> finds that a pk file is missing then mktexpk comes in to operation,
> and if the font in question is appears in a map file mentioned
> in config.ps then gsftopk is asked to generate the font, otherwise
> metafont is asked to generate the font. I do not understand why
> gsftopk is given precedence over metafont like this, and it seems
> to be the source of some problems if one upgrades ghostscript.
> I am using ghostscript 7.00, and currently I sometimes find that
> gsftopk fails. I think I attempted to fix this by upgrading everything
> else; however, an easier solution for me is to temporarily
> comment out the +p <mapfile> lines in config.ps so that metafont
> is called instead of gsftopk.
> Since metafont is and will remain constant, would it not be better
> to make sure that metafont is called first? If no metafont source
> is found, then call gsftopk. This would seem to be more logical
> and avoid the same difficulties occurring again the next time
> ghostscript gets upgraded.
> 

Look at

==> http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/gsftopk.html


...Rolf

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