OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt

OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt

[David Wooten]

Greetings all, and esp. Adam :)

Been toying with Adam Lindsay's recent PracTeX Journal guide for 
installing OpenType. The sample with torunska works (though the noted 
GPOS errors are there) up to the point where I issue the command:

texexec --pdf --mode=compact --once 
texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska.tex

Whereupon I receive the following (I've cut it perhaps too severely, 
let me know what more would be helpful to see):

[ v. much cut out ]

systems         : end file texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska at line 63
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 
texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMe
d-Regular
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for 
texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMed-Regular.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
  )
Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMed-Regular): 
Font tex
nansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMed-Regular at 72 not found
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 
texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMe
d-Italic
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for 
texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMed-Italic.

[ cut: same for each font variant ]

Output written on texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska.pdf (17 pages, 
364611 byte
s).
Transcript written on texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska.log.

            return code : 0
               run time : 51 seconds

         total run time : 52 seconds

---

Each of the named variants seems to have been installed correctly in 
tetex.local, and I  did texhash, etc.

Thanks very much,
David Wooten

Re: OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt

[Adam Lindsay]

Hi David.

Thanks for giving the article a spin. 
The first suspect is the mapfile. You should have in your local tree:
fonts/map/pdftex/context/texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska.map

The contents may be confusing, but they *should* be parsable. If it's not
there, or it's content-free, then I suspect that you're not using the
latest LCDF typetools. 

You're a mac user, right? If so, then Gerben has the latest version
(2.26) available in the *EXPERIMENTAL* i-Installer directory. Using the
previous one he made available (2.2) was the #1 source of errors while
the article was being reviewed.

If I'm wide of the mark, email me your configuration (platform & version
numbers) & map file off-list, and we'll see what we can find.

Cheers,
adam

David Wooten said this at Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:01:31 -0700:

>Greetings all, and esp. Adam :)
>
>Been toying with Adam Lindsay's recent PracTeX Journal guide for 
>installing OpenType. The sample with torunska works (though the noted 
>GPOS errors are there) up to the point where I issue the command:
>
>texexec --pdf --mode=compact --once 
>texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska.tex
>
>Whereupon I receive the following (I've cut it perhaps too severely, 
>let me know what more would be helpful to see):
>
>[ v. much cut out ]
>
>systems         : end file texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska at line 63
>kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 
>texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMe
>d-Regular
>mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for 
>texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMed-Regular.
>kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
>  )
>Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMed-Regular): 
>Font tex
>nansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMed-Regular at 72 not found
>kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 
>texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMe
>d-Italic
>mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for 
>texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMed-Italic.
>
>[ cut: same for each font variant ]
>
>Output written on texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska.pdf (17 pages, 
>364611 byte
>s).
>Transcript written on texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska.log.
>
>            return code : 0
>               run time : 51 seconds
>
>         total run time : 52 seconds
>
>---
>
>Each of the named variants seems to have been installed correctly in 
>tetex.local, and I  did texhash, etc.
>
>Thanks very much,
>David Wooten
>
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