Re: Fonts not found

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:11 AM 1/28/01 +0100, Johannes H?sing wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I recently decided rto change from the SuSE Linux to the Debian
>GNU/Linux distribution. I was dissatisfied with the version of ConTeXt
>on the latter and installed a new ConTeXt on the TEXLOCAL tree. 
>
>Since then, I get disturbing messages running ConTeXt like
>"Warning: cont-en (file cmr8): Font cmr8 at 720 not found"
>and even more disturbing output (ugly pixelish fonts), even though the
>font files seem to be there: "locate cmr8.pfb" gets me
>/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr8.pfb.
>
>Looking at the log I see that all paths mentioned use the TEXLOCAL
>tree. The only exception is /usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg. 
>Oh yes, and cmr8.pfb is mapped to cmr8 in pdftex.map.

This is unrelated to context. Are you sure that the pdf config file
includes a proper map file from the right path? There have been changes
(long ago) in the location of those paths. Also set up: 

set TEXMFLOCAL=...
set TEXMFMAIN=...
set TEXMFCNF=...  

Hans
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