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by JL Diaz :: Rate this Message:

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On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Gordon Royle <gordon@...> wrote:


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).


No. In TeXlive it is called pdftex.map. It is at /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map (replace 2008 for 2007 if appropriate)

In order to try the example provided by Mark, I tried a "minimal local" installation. I.e: i copied to the same folder than the document the files: fjdmw8t.tfm fjdmw8t.vf fjdmw.pfb fjdmw8r.tfm, and a copy of the above mentioned pdftex.map. I edited pdftex.map and add at the end the contents of the file emerald.map (adding a single line with +map emerald.map doesn't work).

After this, the example compiled. Of course for a real installation you have to copy all files to appropiate places and edit pdftex.map (although I'm not sure this is a good idea, because it is probably overwritten each time you add a new font package through tlmgr)

Regards,
--JL Diaz

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