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

George N. White III gnwiii at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 17:56:50 CET 2010


2010/2/10 Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
>
>
> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>
>> I would try to find the files with kpsewhich. If it does not work, the
>> file name database is wrong or the files are on wrong places. As I
>> see, the tfm file is not in the tfm subdirectory which might be the
>> problem. If the files are found but do not work, the map file is
>> wrong.
>
> OK, the files are definitely found :
>
>> H:\TeX\Projects\Andreas>kpsewhich webomintsgd.tfm
>> h:/TeX/Live/2009/texmf/local/fonts/tfm/local/webomintsgd.tfm
>>
>> H:\TeX\Projects\Andreas>kpsewhich webomintsgd.pfb
>> h:/TeX/Live/2009/texmf/local/fonts/type1/local/webomintsgd.pfb
>
> and tbe map entry in PdfTeX.map was inserted by "updmap"
> using "webo.map" as its source.
>
> Lars Madsen wrote:
>
>> I don't think it is a good idea to manually change pdftex.map
>>
>> I have
>>
>>   WebOMintsGD WebOMintsGD <WebOMintsGD.pfb
>>
>> in webo.map, which is located in
>>
>> texmf-local/fonts/map/dvips/webomints
>>
>> ran texhash to make sure webo.map can be found, aka
>>
>> kpsewhich webo.map
>>
>> then enabled it
>>
>> updmap-sys --enable Map webo.map
>
> Yes, did all that, and even did
>
>        updmap-sys --enable Map ./webo.map
>
> with a copy of webo.map in the current directory, and thus
> it was updmap that modified PdfTeX.map ...
>
> George N. White III wrote:
>
>> This mixes plain old tex with latex -- it isn't valid for either
>> pdftex or pdflatex.
>
> Well, it works for Guido Herzog !  And as far as I can see,
> it is valid for PdfLaTeX, even if it breaks every rule
> in L2TabuEN :-)

Actually, it  works for me with "umrand" replaced by "niceframe"
and '\end' with '\end{document}'.

>>
>> I used "updmap-sys --enable Map=webo" and can compile+view sample1.tex
>> using pdflatex and xpdf
>
> Hmm, I wonder what I am doing wrong ...
>
> ** Phil.
>



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