Re: another example of fonts (pk files not found)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 02:00 AM 1/27/2002 +0100, Andreas Ulbrich wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I know that the font situation has been explained quite often and I have 
>also read the according manuals, but I didn't manage to install a font 
>properly. Hopefully some of came along the same problem and can offer a 
>quick solution.

>texfont --vendor=bitstream --collection=charter --make --install

with regards to bitstream fonts: beware! it's a nine char path name and in 
some distributions it's trucated to 8, which may give problems with 
locating the files

>This runs as expected. Then I instruct MikTeX to refresh its file 
>databases because texfont failes to do so (usage message is printed).
>
>Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-raw-bchri): Font texnansi-raw-bchbi at 600 
>not found

it looks like the map file is not loaded (this is a pdftex specific 
message, only issued in the final stage; the tfm file was found all right); 
either let context load the map file, or add an entry to pdftex.cfg 
specifying the map file

Hans

>So obviously pdfetex cannot build .pk files. As far as I (I'm a 
>(context|latex) user only, never really cared how it works behind the 
>scenes) understand these are rasterised versions of the font.

well, i assume that you care to have the outlines instead of bitmaps -)

>My questions are:
>
>1. Why does pdfetex need rasterised font. I thought it uses vector fonts only?

this is just an escape; when the font sources present, pdftex will even 
call metafont to generate the fonts

>2. How can I get this working?
>
>Ah yes: MikTex 2.6, latest context beta, Windows XP

just correct the map files and it should work

Hans
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