Re: texexec+mpost cmr10 vs CMR10 trouble using dvips backend

["George N. White III" <gnwiii@gmail.com>]

On 4/16/07, Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> > can also try to create the pd file by hand with "dvips -Ppdf test",
> > that gave a correct output on my system.
>
> Thanks, that works.  I guess -Ppdf tells it to use map files that find
> the type1 fonts, so cmr in the metapost figures is replaced by the
> lmodern .pfb.  Oh, that's not what happens: it instead finds the
> cmr10.pfb and includes it correctly.  So the final document uses
> lmodern for the page number (from the ConTeXt src file) and cmr10 for
> the 'hello' from the metapost figure.

This is a hint that the underlying problem is related to map files.  With the
lm-rep maps the cm "hello" should become lmodern.

> Though I'm a bit scared of -Ppdf from years ago when I think it caused
> encoding problems.  A few characters didn't show up correctly in the
> pdf file, but only when using non-cmr fonts.

I think that was fixed long ago, but I rarely use .dvi anymore.

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George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
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