[Fontinst] quick question?

Christopher Adams chris at raysend.com
Mon Jan 10 16:44:40 CET 2011


Walt,

Can you post your entire installation script?

Does it include the necessary

\recordtransforms{pgs-rec.tex}

?

- Christopher

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:14 AM, walt burkhard <burkhard at cs.ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am new at using fontinst but seem to have managed to create from afm font
> files the necessary tfm, vf, and fd files.
> I am having trouble with the map files creation however.   I have read the
> Lehman.pdf, the fontinst.pdf, and intro98.pdf.    here is what I have tried
> --- (following page 63 of foninst.pdf)
>
>        \input finstmsc.sty
>        \resetstr{PSfontsuffix}{.pfb}
>        \adddriver{dvips}{pgs.map}
>        \input pgs-rec.tex
>        \donedrivers
>        \bye
>
> I have set finstmsc.rc to contain two lines   (as indicated page 240 of
> fisource.pdf)
>
>        \declarepsencoding{8r}{TeXBase1Encoding}{\encodingdownload{8r.enc}}
>        \declarepsencoding{8a}{StandardEncoding}{}
>
> I am trying to install Adobe GillSans   with Berry name   pgs.
>
> When I run the above tex program, I end up with an empty pgs.map file as
> well as pgs-rec.tex file.
>
> Any suggestions/comments/help would be greatly appreciated.  Many thanks in
> advance.
>
> Walt Burkhard
>
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