Re: Fonts not found

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 11:34 PM 1/29/01 +0100, Johannes H?sing wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:08:57PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> At 10:11 AM 1/28/01 +0100, Johannes H?sing wrote:
>[...]
>> >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. 
>
>Most certainly, but maybe not to ConTeXt :-). I run pdflatex without 
>problems so the issue apparently is not within pdftex.
>
>> Are you sure that the pdf config file
>> includes a proper map file from the right path? 
>
>I don't know if pdftex.cfg expects the pdftex.map file to reside in the
>$TEXMFMAIN/dvips/config folder, so I created a soft link to the same
>directory as pdftex.cfg. Same effect. So, where would pdftex expect the
>map file to be? Oh yes, and I ran texhash.

You may then check the paths as specified in texmf.cnf where fonts are
sought. Maybe there is a difference there. 

you cal so otry one of the obscure path search debugging flags (pdfetex
--help)

Hans
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