Re: Problems with Palatino sans serif

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
> I don't know the cure. The same thing happens to me with or without
> \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr]. I have noticed that a map file that is
> present in TeX Liven 2007 is missing in TeX Live 2008 (also using
> MacTeX with some random version of ConTeXt).

The missing mapfile (ec-urw-palatino) is completely harmless.
The file exists in the context minimals, and it contains the map
lines for texfont-installed urw palatino metrics.

But in texlive & mactex texfont is not used, these distributions
use the berry names for the font metrics. Using these metrics
is triggered  by a \usetypescript[berry] in cont-sys.rme, and
the associated fontmap definitions are in (the also automatically
loaded) ec-base.map.

So it is just a spurious warning.

> But what's also really annoying and might be connected - all my
> accented letters written in palatino (URWPalladio) are gone (š is ok,
> č looses accent, ž disappears, fi ligatures turn into some weird
> accents ...) when I post-process the document with Adobe Acrobat in
> order to reduce document size by downsampling photos.

For this, can you send me a private message with before & after set
of pdfs? If possible, ones generated with \nopdfcompression (because
that is easier to debug). Afaict, it is unrelated to this problem,
but still definately a bug.

> I tried to switch to TeXGyre, but then all the line/page breaks are
> broken. 

This is unavoidable, texgyre simply has different metrics from the
URW version of the fonts.

Best wishes,
Taco

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