[tex-live] "Can't find font" : which step(s) have I overlooked ?

[George N. White III]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:

> Attempting to compile Guido Herzog's "fancy border"
> example (extract below), I am told by PdfLaTeX :
>
>> !pdfTeX error: pdflatex.exe (file WebOMintsGD):
>> Font WebOMintsGD at 1200 not found
>>  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>
> I have WebomintsGD.tfm in H:\TeX\Live\2009\texmf\local\fonts,
> WebomintsGD.pfb in H:\TeX\Live\2009\texmf\local\fonts\type1\local,
> uwebo.fd in H:\TeX\Live\2009\texmf\local\tex\latex\misc,
>
> this entry
>
>        WebOMintsGD WebOMintsGD <WebOMintsGD.pfb
>
> in both copies of PdfTeX.map, I have asked TLMGR
> to update the file name databases, and have now
> run out of ideas :-(  What vital step(s) have
> I overlooked, please ?
>
> ** Phil.
> --------
> \documentclass {article}
> \usepackage {umrand, xcolor}
> \usepackage {times}
>
> \font \w = WebOMintsGD at 20pt %% Type1-Font .
>
> \begin {document}
> \w whatever
> \end

This mixes plain old tex with latex -- it isn't valid for either
pdftex or pdflatex.

I used "updmap-sys --enable Map=webo" and can compile+view sample1.tex
using pdflatex and xpdf.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia