From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25496 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kumar Appaiah Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Problems installing Gentium TTF Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:50:07 +0530 Message-ID: <20060122152007.GA12878@localhost> References: <20060121165626.GA3883@localhost> <7C8A477C-0C5A-4968-82D7-6C159A77C4D7@fiee.net> <20060122112524.GA7151@localhost> <5191EA49-9588-4D58-BBC4-23C6140FA78C@fiee.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137942597 10809 80.91.229.2 (22 Jan 2006 15:09:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:09:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jan 22 16:09:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F0gqe-0005Tw-VG for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:09:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11B7312809; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:09:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31033-03; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:09:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2001E127C0; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:09:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F2D127C0 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:09:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31206-03 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:09:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailx2.iitm.ac.in (unknown [202.141.25.246]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DE67127AA for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:09:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mailx2.iitm.ac.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A7D6EE8B for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from mailx2.iitm.ac.in ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailx2.iitm.ac.in [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07872-09 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:39:07 +0530 (IST) Original-Received: from debian (unknown [10.65.0.41]) by mailx2.iitm.ac.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DECA6EE90 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:39:07 +0530 (IST) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5191EA49-9588-4D58-BBC4-23C6140FA78C@fiee.net> X-OS: Linux debian 2.6.14-2-686-smp i686 X-Operating-System: Linux debian 2.6.14-2-686-smp i686 X-Editor: GNU Emacs 21.4.1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at iitm.ac.in X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:25496 Archived-At: On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:03:42PM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Am 2006-01-22 um 12:25 schrieb Kumar Appaiah: >=20 > Did you read the thread "font encodings (glyph lossed..."? > As you see, we have some problems with TrueType fonts. > My font package from this morning is better than the old one, but =20 > still lacks at least the 'dcroat' letter. >=20 > But your problem is another kind. > I'd suggest to start over and use the latest Gentium distribution =20 > (1.02), but so far: Now, that is what I am doing. > What Gentium files do you have in your fonts tree? Which vendor/=20 > collection names did you use? (sil/gentium?) > - AFMs (not needed) > - TTFs (texmf/fonts/truetype/sil/gentium/*.ttf) > - TFMs (texmf/fonts/tfm/sil/gentium/*.tfm) > - MAPs (texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ec-sil-gentium.map) I have all the files, and again, I tried to do the wiki's suggestions. Now, whenever I compile the test file, I get an error in Acrobat saying "Cannot find font in Resources, using Helvetica instead". > Did you rename all files to lowercase (and without spaces)? ConTeXt =20 > sometimes has problems if file names use uppercase letters. I have done this, and I believe that this helped. > There should be ec-genr101.tfm and .ttf in your case, that's what TeX =20 > is looking for. Yes, I have the 102 ones. > If the TFM is found, you'll run in the next problem: Probably in =20 > the .map file there's '.pfb' instead of '.ttf' No, that seems all right. > I always need to run texhash with root permissions ('sudo texhash'), =20 > otherwise the database cannot be written. I also run it with root permission. Thanks for your patient responses. If you think you can suggest anything further, please do so; though I am on the verge of giving up... BTW, it might help if you know that I am using tetex-3.0 on Debian GNU/Linux. Thanks again. Kumar --=20 Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036