Re: Problems with fonts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:25:22PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
>   
>>> It should work out ok if you change the map file line to either:
>>>
>>>    cmr12  LMRoman12-Regular   <lm-rep-cmrm.enc  <lmr12.pfb
>>>       
>> This didn't work.
>>
>>     
>>> or
>>>
>>>    cmr12     CMR12    <cmr12.pfb
>>>       
>> This worked. Now, things are quite all right, except that I am still
>> unhappy with the rendering in Acrobat. But at least the things seem to
>> be mostly solved with this one.
>>     
>
> Thanks for all the help, but one final question before I give up!
>
> IF I use pdflatex, this is the header of a PS file I get upon doing
> dvips:
>
> %!PS-Adobe-2.0
> %%Creator: dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software
> %%Title: myfile.dvi
> %%Pages: 1
> %%PageOrder: Ascend
> %%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
> %%DocumentFonts: CMR17 CMR12 CMBX12 CMR10 CMMI12 CMEX10 CMSY8 CMMI8 CMR8
> %%+ MSBM10 CMR7 CMBX10                             
so, latex does not use lm at all here
>                         
>
> However, for ConTeXt, the output I get is:
>
> %!PS-Adobe-2.0
> %%Creator: dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software
> %%Title: test.dvi
> %%Pages: 1
> %%PageOrder: Ascend
> %%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
> %%DocumentFonts: LMRoman12-Regular CMR12 LMMathItalic9-Italic
> %%+ LMMathItalic12-Italic LMMathSymbols10-Italic
>   
the one CMR12 comes from an embedded graphic; why not use LM in that 
graphic?
> Now, is there any way to force the fonts to map on to the old CMR
> names? That is because I feel it is because of the CMR/lmodern issue
> that pdflatex generated PDFs appear properly, while ConTeXt ones
> don't. What should the map file look like?
>   
if you use tex encoding you could make a map file mapping them, but 
otherwise ...
> Also, please find the Debian default map file here:
>
> http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/original-public-lm.map.gz
>
> Thanks for bearing with me. I want to try my best before giving up,
> failing which I will be forced to return to teTeX (with the old
> ConTeXt) and miss out on some new ConTeXt niceties, such as
> \startalign etc.
>   
Hans