Re: texexec+mpost cmr10 vs CMR10 trouble using dvips backend

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> A font-embedding issue puzzles me.  First I make a metapost figure that
> uses plain tex for the label, so it uses cmr10.  Then I include it in a
> context document to get a .ps file.  The problem is that the label shows
> up in Courier (which ghostscript uses when it cannot find the font, I
> think).
> 
> Here is the test.tex 
> 
>   \starttext
>   \externalfigure[fig.1]
>   \stoptext
> 
> and this fig.mp
> 
>   beginfig(1)
>   label(btex hello etex, origin);
>   endfig;
>   end
> 
> The commands are:
> 
>   mpost fig
>   texexec --ps test
>   gv test.ps

If you set prologues := 1 in the mp file, that should help.

In a new metapost (texlive2007) you can even generate an
image with the font included by using prologues := 3.

Best, Taco