On Saturday 21 September 2002 04:44 pm, Bill McClain wrote: > On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:44:37 -0400 > > John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > am trying to install a variation of Palatino under anther name. > > I copied and renamed the pfa and pfb files. When I pull the > > renamed file up in pfaedit it says that the encoding is Standard > > Adobe. Which is what in tex-talk, default, ec, or a player to > > named later? > > Looking at the *.enc files, 8a.enc claims to be Adobe Standard > Encoding, but several others including the defaul texnansi.enc are > close. > > When using texfont I'm not sure it matters. You new versions will > be reencoded to whatever spec you want. > > I say this one who maintains the right to be ignorant of encodings. > I've used the default texnansi for my font installs are all has > worked well. > > -Bill Another test:
I copied the pfm and pfb files for urw palatino to my home directory and renamed them uculr8a.pfm and uculr8a.pfb. I then ran the following script: texfont.pl --fontroot=/usr/TeX/texmf \ --vendor=urw \ --collection=ucul \ --sourcepath=/home/safer \ --install --makepath --show It ran to completion with error messages. The resultant test pdf had errors when loading into Acrobat Reader. Here is an interesting comment from the log file: Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/TeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg): invalid pa rameter name in config file: `test.map' It is interesting because I don't have a file called test.map and neither of my psfonts.map files refer to test.map. I don't have a pdftex.map file on my current texmf distro. I created an empty test.map file and this time I got more output. The system still couldn't find the file. Here is the message from the log file: / Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-raw-cul): Font texnansi-raw-cul at 600 not foun d ------------------------------- There were a huge number of messages in the log file about missing glyphs. ----------------------------------------------- The resulting pdf file could be read by xpdf but Acrobat Reader found error messages and would not display it properly. For this particular test I did not attempt to edit the font file to change its name internally. I use pfaedit for a font file editor. Previous runs with the name change to ucul did not succeed either. ------------------------------------------------ Summary: Here is a font that is known to work. I only changed its name and location and tried to install it with texfonts.pl and it would not install. Where did I go wrong? John Culleton
