Re: texlive2008: multiple updmap.cfg files but no pdftex.cfg file?

On Oct 7, 1:17 pm, "ivo...@xxxxxxxxx" <ivo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
thanks, everyone.  what is the definitive manual for a postscript font
installation by hand?  Philipp Lehman's document is from 2004, and no
longer works.  Peter Flynn's writeup is from March 2005, and also no
longer works.  If someone can send me to a definitive install
document, I can probably figure out myself how to get this to work.
if not, I would appreciate any help to make it work.

right now, I think I have a large part of the installation right
(cobbled together, and thus possibly totally mangled).   I am trying
my installation on one copperplate font (cp30a).  I looked up the karl
berry name ('zpcp30ab').  I created and placed the .tfm and .vf files

Is it zpcp30ab or zpc30ab?

(and .afm and pfb and .vf files, e.g., texmf-local/fonts/zpc30ab/
zpc30ab.tfm.)   I created texmf-local/fonts/map/zpcp30ab/zpc.map,
which contains
   rzpcp30ably Copperplate-ThirtyAB " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont "
<texnansi.enc

This map line is missing the name of the .pfb file. Also, the name of
the .tfm file seems to be wrong. I would have expected (from your
description of filenames)

zpc30ab Copperplate-ThirtyAB "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont "
<texnansi.enc <zpc30ab.pdf

(all on one line, of course). The first word should be the tfm file
name
(without the extension) and the last should be the pfb or pfa file
name.

The TFM file name is pretty much anything one wants unless one needs
certain automatic scripts to work, however it must match the actual
name
of the tfm file and the name used in the tex file.

is not working.  (Also, I tried a few variations on the TeX file.)

There is quite a lot that "is not working" could mean.

1) tfm not found: Should be a fairly clear error message about TFM
2) pfb not found.
3) map file not found.
4) confusing error messages from pdflatex
5) invalid pdf produced, no pdf produce, or missing characters in
pdf

Typically the end of the screen output of pdflatex is a list
of pfb fonts included, or errors in finding them. TFM error
messages happen at the time of the \font command. The
default map file is pdftex.map and updmap should produce
it, but if search paths are wrongly set, there should be a
pretty clear message about the failure to find it.

Problem 4 is generally just one of 1-3, but with a user unable to
figure out which. And problem 5 would be essentially obvious
(file missing, or the pdf viewer failing to load it or displaying
incorrect output).


Dan
.

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