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Re: Simulating Handwriting (and a couple of other questions)

by Gordon Royle :: Rate this Message:

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On 09/06/2009, at 4:29 PM, Mark Wibrow wrote:

Take a look at

http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/calligraphicalfonts.html

for more fonts

regards

Thanks for the pointer, but unfortunately I cannot seem to install the fonts...

I'm using Mac OS X and installed the monster MacTex package when I started ...

Anyway, the instructions for installing emerald say

Copy trees "fonts"
and "tex" into your texmf folder.

I seem to have a multiplicity of texmf folders (texmf, texmf-config, texmf-dist, texmf-doc, texmf-var) but anyway I copied the trees into the

/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf

folder.

Then I ran "sudo texhash" and at least it managed to find "emerald.sty" and drew the nice blue box you made...

BUT, and its a big but... I cannot get the actual FONT to appear.... I always use pdflatex and so I attempted to follow the instructions

Make pdfTeX read the additional font map file emerald.map.
This is usually accomplished by adding the line

map +emerald.map

to the pdfTeX configuration file. With teTeX, fpTeX or
MikTeX this is texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg.

Now I grind to a halt... I don't HAVE a texmf/pdftex/config directory... nor do I have a pdftex.cfg file (anywhere on the system).

So what happens now when I run your little test program is that the log ends with...

[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/tex/latex/emerald/t1fjd.fd) [1{/usr/local/texl
ive/2007/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./test.aux) ){/usr/loc
al/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-t1.enc}kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 fjdmw8r
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for fjdmw8r.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

pdfTeX warning: /usr/texbin/pdflatex (file fjdmw8r): Font fjdmw8r at 600 not fo
und
</usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/cm-super/sfrm1000.pfb>

Basically I just don't know enough about how fonts are defined and used to actually debug the instructions (all I know is that font management is a dark dark art...)

Gordon

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