[fptex] mktexpk looking for Ghostscript??

[Jose Carlos Oliveira Santos]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, ALAN A DUNWELL wrote:

Hi

> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+264/600 --dpi 864
> ptmb8r
> gsftopk(k) version 1.19.1
> Can't locate Ghostscript ! Exiting ...
> mktexpk: Running gsftopk ptmb8r 864
> command gsftopk ptmb8r 864 return 1
> mktexpk: warning: can't open log file ptmb8r.log.
> mktexpk: `gsftopk ptmb8r 864' failed.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
> windvi: Can't find font ptmb8r.864pk

I am not sure about this, but if you are using Ghostscript 7.00 you may
have been a victim of the bug described at

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

Best regards

Jose Carlos Santos