Am Wed, 5 Apr 2023 11:51:02 +0300
schrieb Udicoudco <udifog...@gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 10:12 PM Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote:
> >
> > I used to be able to export our Hebrew documents to PDF using dvipdfmx. 
> > This doesn't
> > work for me anymore, and I'm wondering if it is worth the effort to try to 
> > fix it on
> > my system, or whether I should just drop these tests (in favor of the XeTeX 
> > and
> > LuaTeX tests).
> >
> > Does the export work for anyone? To check, you first need to uncheck "use 
> > system
> > fonts" in document settings.  
> 
> Works for me. Both on texlive and miktex.
> 
> > If it does work, does anyone know whether this converter chain is used in 
> > practice
> > these days?  
> 
> I personally have old files using this converter chain. I've also noticed
> that most new lyx users aren't aware that it is much better yp use
> XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX with Hebrew, so they use it.
> 
>  Also, In some rare cases there times when I'm forced to work
> with pdfTeX.
> 
> > Here is my terminal output with the error:
> >
> > dvipdfmx:warning: Could not locate a virtual/physical font for TFM "david".
> > dvipdfmx:warning: This font is mapped to a physical font 
> > "DavidCLM-Medium.pfa".
> > dvipdfmx:fatal: Sorry, pfa format not supported; please convert the font to 
> > pfb,
> > e.g., with t1binary.  
> 
> Note that none of the Hebrew fonts (David CLM in particular) are
> shipped with TeXLive.
> You can install them from here:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/ivritex/files/culmus-latex/culmus-latex-0.7/
> 
> To install, Use the MAKE file, ot copy the two directories from the
> .tar.gz file called tex and fonts, from use/share/texmf/
> to a local texmf tree.
> 
> If you copied the directories manually, run updmap --enable
> Map=culmus.map (or updmap -sys --enable Map=culmus.map) afterwards.

Thanks, I always forget this last part :(
Works here now again.

> Regards,
> Udi

        Kornel

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