Re: Fonts driving me crazy

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:13 PM 6/5/2002 +0100, Nigel King wrote:
> > I use the latest Context  and tetex 1.0 (and latest pdftex, pdfetex) on
> > SGI Irix. Everything works fine except fonts. I have run texfont
> > --encoding=ec --batch type-tmf.dat and I get ec-raw--utmb8a.tfm,
> > ec-utmb8a.tfm and ec-utmb8a.vf (but no ec-raw--utmb8a.vf) files in the
> > correct directories. I also have the map files with lines like:
>
>Was the double dash (--) a typo in the email?
>
> >
> > ec-raw-utmb8a NimbusRomNo9L-Medi 4 < utmb8a.pfb ec.enc
> >
> > I have not enabled \autoloadmapfilestrue
>I find no success unless I enable \autoloadmapfilestrue
>
>There are a lot of warning messages though!
>
> >
> > When I run my testfile I get no error messages (assumming: 'needs map
> > file ...' are no errors). But when I start xdvi I get:
>
>I use \setupoutput[pdftex]
>Giving pdf directly rather than using dvi

indeed, texfont generates map files for pdftex and inclusion of map files 
only works in pdftex;

(like nigel) i don't use dvi for document production, just switch to pdf, 
and use GS or acrobat for previewing;

Hans
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