Re: Getting the PDF postscript fonts to work

[mari.voipio@iki.fi]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 12:07 AM 2/6/2003 +0100, Nagy Bence wrote:
>
> >ap +ec-bitstrea-charter.map
>
> You mean the bitstream? There are differences between bitstream paths: bit
> bitstrea bitstream etc so let's first ask the distribution experts what the
> latest status is with regards to the
>
> 'official name for the bitstream font path'

TeXLive 7 (the official version, seems to be of June 4, 2002) is a bit
buggy at that point:

The .afm files are at /texmf/fonts/afm/bit/charter/ while the .pfb files
are at /texmf/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter and then the type-tmf.batch
script looks for --ve=bitstrea --co=charter so it, of course, doesn't work
too well.

I've found that the easiest way to fix this is to rename (or copy and
rename the copy) the /texmf/fonts/afm/bit/ directory to be 'bitstrea',
i.e. the result is /texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/ and after that the
type-tmf.batch script works perfectly (well, it needs tweaking elsewhere,
but that's a different story).


Mari
(Guess what I've been doing this week...)