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[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

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>On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Bill McClain wrote:
>
> > "George N. White III" wrote:
> >
> > > You should try to get the 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20010806-2.1 or later
> > > pdfeTeX.
> >
> > First: Thanks for replying!
> >
> > Ok, I've installed 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20010806-2.1 and verfied that
> > it works.
> >
> > > Did you set up the tfm's, vf's, etc. using texfont?
> >
> > I hadn't because I thought that some setup would reference the
> > pre-existing tfm files. But I've run it now, using bitstrea/charter as a
> > test. It creates these files under the fonts directory:
> >  [...]
> > ...plus this:
> >
> > pdftex/config/texnansi-bitstrea-charter.map
> >
> > ...and a test file:
> >
> > texnansi-bitstrea-charter.tex
> >
> > This last generates errors when I run it, variations on:
> >
> > Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-raw-bchri8a): Font texnansi-raw-bchri8a
> > at 600
> > not found
> >
> > Is it searching for a bitmap font? I must be missing some part of the
> > setup that identifies charter as a type1. Where do I look next?
>
>You should find an entry for texnansi-raw-bchri8a in the newly
>created .map file:
>
>   texnansi-raw-bchri8a CharterBT-Italic 4 < bchri8a.pfb texnansi.enc
>
>You can check for the existence of the font file:
>
>$ kpsewhich bchri8a.pfb
>/usr/people/gwhite/texmf-fonts/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter/bchri8a.pfb
>
>Did you update the ls-R file for the texmf directory where the new
>files were installed?
>
>I notice that on my system, context seems to expect 6 Charter-BT
>fonts, but I don't have the two "Black" fonts, so I commented
>out the corresponding entries in the .map file and in the
>sample .tex file.
>
>--
>George N. White III <gnw3@acm.org> Bedford Institute of Oceanography

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