Hi all LaTeX/xdvi/metafont/pk gurus....

Just doing the final preps for my talk on Sat morning. I have a problem 
though with xdvi.
Background:
The talk is on a Ti Powerbook running MacOSX. I have installed XFree86 
4.2 and it runs fine with Blackbox wm. I have teTex and xdvi and vim of 
course. LaTeX runs fine and xdvi runs fine if you use CMR fonts. But 
when i use package 'newcent' or 'bookman' latex runs fine but when xdvi 
gets the focus I get a flurry of font generation with the error message:

The following command for building a font file has failed:
mktexpk --mfmode cx --bdpi 300 --mag 'magstep(1) --dpi 360 pncri7t '>&3'

There are many of the above messages, one for each size of a font. After 
answering OK to all the errors xdvi shows that cmr fonts have been 
substituted. Each time I run latex on docfest.tex xdvi again goes and 
tries to generate all the pk fonts; as it failed the previous time.

Typing the error into google does not show this problem. Over the next 
few minutes I will try diff search terms but otherwise what might be 
going wrong here? Clearly something failed to install correctly in the 
setup. Yes its MacOSX not Linux guys but for a talk on LaTeX a 
pseudo-BSD will be fine :-)

Michael Lake
Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.



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