[fptex] Cannot preview marvosym fonts using windvi

[Jose Carlos Santos]

On 15 Jun 2002, Guy Worthington wrote:

> I'm using fptex 0.6, and AFPL Ghostscript 7.20.
>
> I downloaded and installed the marvosym package from
>
>   ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/fptex/0.6
>
> I can generate valid glyphs for the marvosym font using pdftex, or
> generating a dvi file and then using dvips.  I cannot, however preview
> the marvosym fonts using windvi.
>
> I've tried manually generating the pk fonts, using gsftopk, but
> gsftopk is complaining with messages, such as the one below.

A similar problem was discussed more than a year ago at the comp.text.tex
newsgroup in a thread called "marvosym doesn't work with latex/dvips".
Take a look at:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=pt&lr=&threadm=3AFE9533.BEA7129B%40t-online.de&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Dpt%26lr%3D%26q%3Dgroup%253Acomp.text.tex%2Bmarvosym%26btnG%3DPesquisa%2BGoogle

I hope that this helps.

Jose Carlos Santos