corrupted .map files or MikTeX messing around?

corrupted .map files or MikTeX messing around?

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hello,

a friend sent me some currupted PDF files (produced by ConTeXt)
yesterday: all the fonts were missing in the document. He installed
the latest ConTeXt (unzipped cont-tmf) on top of MikTeX (and I was
able to reproduce his problem).

In MikTeX the file
    fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/ec-public-lm.map
was used instead of
    fonts/map/dvips/context/ec-lm.map

ec-public-lm.map looks like:

ec-lmb10 lm-ec lmb10
ec-lmbo10 lm-ec lmbo10
ec-lmbx10 lm-ec lmbx10
ec-lmbx12 lm-ec lmbx12

while the other one reads:

ec-lmb10 LMRoman10-Demi "enclmec ReEncodeFont" <lm-ec.enc <lmb10.pfb
ec-lmbo10 LMRoman10-DemiOblique "enclmec ReEncodeFont" <lm-ec.enc <lmbo10.pfb
ec-lmbx10 LMRoman10-Bold "enclmec ReEncodeFont" <lm-ec.enc <lmbx10.pfb
ec-lmbx12 LMRoman12-Bold "enclmec ReEncodeFont" <lm-ec.enc <lmbx12.pfb


So pdfTeX reported many arrors (see one of the recent threads "new release"):

Warning: pdfetex (file original-base.map): invalid entry for `fmvr8x': font fil
e missing
...

Whose fault is it? MikTeX's pdfTeX using the wrong path & files or
were the map files [unintentionally] changed in order to support XeTeX
perhaps?

Mojca

Re: corrupted .map files or MikTeX messing around?

[Mojca Miklavec]

Please ignore my post. I should have read the other thread more
carefully before posting this.

Mojca

Re: corrupted .map files or MikTeX messing around?

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On May 22, 2006, at 6:49 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> Whose fault is it? MikTeX's pdfTeX using the wrong path & files or
> were the map files [unintentionally] changed in order to support XeTeX
> perhaps?
>
> Mojca

Mojca,

I have no idea if this is related, but I had similar problems a few  
days ago when I was using TeXShop on OS X. I get error messages such  
as this one:

{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/ 
original-empty.ma
p}
fonts           : using map file: original-base
{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/ 
original-base.map

Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ 
dvipdfm/con
text/original-base.map): invalid entry for `fmvr8x': font file missing

The point seems to be that ConTeXt  somehow runs in dvipdfm mode and  
reads the wrong mapfiles. How do you call ConTeXt? When I run it on  
the CLI or from within emacs/auctex with texmfstart texexec,  
everything works again. I assume that an obsolete command is passed  
to the command interpreter in your case as well.

HTH

Thomas

Re: corrupted .map files or MikTeX messing around?

[Hans Hagen]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a friend sent me some currupted PDF files (produced by ConTeXt)
> yesterday: all the fonts were missing in the document. He installed
> the latest ConTeXt (unzipped cont-tmf) on top of MikTeX (and I was
> able to reproduce his problem).
>
> In MikTeX the file
>     fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/ec-public-lm.map
> was used instead of
>     fonts/map/dvips/context/ec-lm.map
>   
dvipdfmx and pdftex have a different map file syntax; normally the progname variable takes care of that: 

TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{$progname,pdftex,dvips,}//

so you need to figure out what miktex is using 

(btw, i thought that i put the map files in the pdftex path) 

Hans 


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