[fptex] Problems with fonts?

[Staszek Wawrykiewicz]

Erik Meijering <meijering@imagescience.org> wrote:
> However, now I'm trying to use other fonts, like mathpazo, but am
> experiencing problems: some of the symbols are left blank (both windvi
> and dvips).
> ....
> gsftopk(k) version 1.19.2mktexpk: Running gsftopk fplmr 456

I seems that you haven't installed GhostScript, which renders Type1 font
for displaying them in windvi. With GS7.05 I have
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 0+456/600 --dpi 456 fplmr
gsftopk(k) version 1.19.2/705
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mktexpk: Running gsftopk fplmr 456
mktexpk: g:/TeX/texmf-var/fonts/pk/modeless/public/pazo/fplmr.456pk: successfully generated.

> mktexmf: empty or non-existent rootfile!
means that mktexmf tries first metafont source, and such file doesn't exist. 

However dvips should work... Something wrong with map files? Please check
...\texmf-var\dvips\config\psfonts.map. Should be there:
fplmr PazoMath < fplmr.pfb

Ooops, I found that psnfss package from fptex0.6 doesn't contain pazo .pfb 
files (only .tfm, .fd, .vf, etc).
On the other hand pazomath package (pazomath.zip) doesn't belong to 
any collection, so pazomath cannot be easilly installed by TeXSetup.

Fabrice, would you please adding mathpazo to tex-psfonts.tpm ?

mathpazo distribution on CTAN is somehow strange, since part of it 
is already in psnfss, thus all that mess...

-- 
Staszek Wawrykiewicz
email: staw@gust.org.pl