Font problems when using dvips

Font problems when using dvips

[Maarten Wisse]

Hi ConTeXt experts,

It was a long time ago that I used ConTeXt, but now I'm back to ConTeXt for 
making a birth announcement. No don't congratulate me, because one should do 
this actually before the baby is there :-)

Ok, I use a Bitstream font Kabel/Cable and I've made the necessary font 
files using fontinst with \latinfamily command. Then I do the following in 
my ConTeXt files:

\definefontsynonym [Kabel-Light]                [bkbr8t]  [encoding=ec]
\definefontsynonym [Sans] [Kabel-Light]

For dvips and pdftex, I do the following in bkb.map:
bkbr8r Geometric-LightC "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc <bkbm8a.pfb

This I do for all the different variants of the font, of course. It works 
perfectly when making pdf files with PDFeTeX 13d. All accented characters 
and an en-dash which are on the card appear correctly. However, when trying 
to compile to dvi and then to dvips, accents and en-dash disappear. I 
already tried two alternatives:

1. Change bkbr8t in the \definefontsynonym command to bkbr8r and change 
encoding to [encoding=texnansi].
2. change bkbr8r in the bkb.map file to bkbr8t and leaving the ConTeXt files 
unmodified. In this case, I do an upd.map rerun of course, to get the 
modifications into psfonts.map and pdftex.map

Neither of these works. Does anyone know what is wrong?

My platform: RedHat 7.0 with teTeX 1.0.7

Thanks in advance,

Maarten Wisse

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Re: Font problems when using dvips

[Hans Hagen]

At 08:30 AM 11/14/00 GMT, Maarten Wisse wrote:
>Hi ConTeXt experts,
>
>It was a long time ago that I used ConTeXt, but now I'm back to ConTeXt for 
>making a birth announcement. No don't congratulate me, because one should do 
>this actually before the baby is there :-)
>
>Ok, I use a Bitstream font Kabel/Cable and I've made the necessary font 
>files using fontinst with \latinfamily command. Then I do the following in 
>my ConTeXt files:
>
>\definefontsynonym [Kabel-Light]                [bkbr8t]  [encoding=ec]
>\definefontsynonym [Sans] [Kabel-Light]
>
>For dvips and pdftex, I do the following in bkb.map:
>bkbr8r Geometric-LightC "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc <bkbm8a.pfb
>
>This I do for all the different variants of the font, of course. It works 
>perfectly when making pdf files with PDFeTeX 13d. All accented characters 
>and an en-dash which are on the card appear correctly. However, when trying 
>to compile to dvi and then to dvips, accents and en-dash disappear. I 
>already tried two alternatives:

in depth dvips knowledge is beyond me [here we use dvipsone] so that is for
others to answer. 

if you want to go from pdf to ps, you can use pdftops from Derek Noonburg
[in xdvi distribution and on tex live] which does an efficient conversion;
we use that in our printer driver. 

Hans
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Re: Font problems when using dvips

[S2P development]

> >Ok, I use a Bitstream font Kabel/Cable and I've made the necessary font
> >files using fontinst with \latinfamily command. Then I do the following in
> >my ConTeXt files:
> >
> >\definefontsynonym [Kabel-Light]                [bkbr8t]  [encoding=ec]
> >\definefontsynonym [Sans] [Kabel-Light]
> >
> in depth dvips knowledge is beyond me [here we use dvipsone] so that is for
> others to answer.

I've had similar problems in the past (likewise when using pdftex). I
*think* 
the problem is that the encoding settings are never actually executed
(that, or
something somewhere resets the encoding to 'texnansi' all by itself). I
solved
my problem by using texnansi encoded fonts instead, but I suspect you
can also
remove the problem by executing

\setupbodyfont[ber,pos]

And if that doesn't work, try wrapping the whole text content in 
\startencoding[ec] ... \stopencoding.

Greetings, Taco