Re: newbi: config

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 01:01 PM 6/5/2002 +0200, Eros Albertazzi wrote:

>Let me take again your time, sorry but being alone w/o teachers in my

well, you live in italy so you can be teached even in italian by GB (aka 
Oblomov, on this list)

>istitution and moving to ConText is not that easy. Running the example

esp not easy since you start with the tricky things: graphictext uses 
tex/mp/gs etc ... -)

>\starttext
>\startMPcode
>  graphictext "MP" scaled 8 reversefill
>   withdrawcolor .7blue withfillcolor .7white
>   dashed evenly withpen pencircle scaled 1pt ;
>\stopMPcode
>\stoptext
>
>I obtain  an almost empty page with just page number 1 at top and
>several warning (maybe unrelated to the result)
>
>pdftex         : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map
>pdftex         : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map
>pdftex         : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map

no problem, just a warning

>Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map):
>invalid entry
>  for `rtxphvbo': SlantFont/ExtendFont can be used only with embedded T1
>fonts
>Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map):
>invalid entry
>  for `rtxphvro': SlantFont/ExtendFont can be used only with embedded T1
>fonts
>Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map):
>invalid entry
>  for `rtxptmbo': SlantFont/ExtendFont can be used only with embedded T1
>fonts
>Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map):
>invalid entry
>  for `rtxptmro': SlantFont/ExtendFont can be used only with embedded T1
>fonts
>}]

these are warnings: looks like some of you rmap files define slanted 
versions of embedded fonts, you may want force embedding (good idea anyway 
even for times etc)

in order to get graphictext working, are you sure that makempy runs ok, 
i.e. that pstoedit is installed and in your path?

Hans
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