[tex-live] temporary files of otftotfm

Akira Kakuto kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp
Thu Sep 20 16:58:47 CEST 2012


Dear Ulrike,

> When calling otftotfm I get the error message
> otftotfm: temporary file '\s1so.4': Permission denied
> This looks as if otftotfm tries to write at the root of the drive.
> I can avoid the problem by calling otftotfm with admin rights. 
> 
> I had this problem already two years ago. At this time it was a bug
> which has been corrected:
> 
> http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-February/024687.html
> 
> It worked fine with an older version (2.82 I think) until yesterday
> when I downloaded the newest version ;-(.

Thanks for the report.
I forgot http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-February/024687.html and used the standard function.
I'll fix it ASAP.

Akira



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