[tex-live] problems with vftovp

Lionel Lovitch lovitch at mail.df.unipi.it
Wed Apr 23 13:01:46 CEST 2003


Olaf Weber wrote:

>Lionel Lovitch writes:
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>>To use Textures/Latex on my Mac where I have installed AGaramon and
>>Optima fonts
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>>I need to create the corresponding pad and pop metric suitcases.
>>So I need to feed the EdMetrics application with the associated .pl
>>annd .vpl files.
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>>Back in my office in the university, where I now use a PC with RedHat
>>Linux version 8.0 as OS,
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>>I ran the tftopl application on the unaccompanied .tfm files and there
>>was no problem in creating the .pl files.
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>>Instead, when I try running vftovp on the pairs of .tfm and .vf files
>>I get into serious trouble:
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>>I receive reports of "Bad VF file: Character ... in font 0 will be
>>ignored" on standard error output.
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>>I am attaching two examples of this error output with the pairs of
>>.tfm and .vf files of the pop package
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>>together with a copy of the vftovp application I am using.
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>>Can you please advise me how to proceed?
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>It looks like the error messages don't really make this clear.  When
>processing popb7t.vf, the vftovp program looks for popb8r.tfm -- this
>name is actually encoded in the vf file.
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>Adding that tfm file in the search path allows vftovp to run to
>completion.  These tfm files should have been packaged with the
>others.  A related problem seems to be that not all the tfm files
>requested in this manner seem to be (readily?) available on CTAN.  I
>think it should be possible to generate them from the afm files, but
>did not further investigate.
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Olaf
thanks a  lot
I put all the tfm and vf files into the same subdirectory
and repeated the vftovp procedure
and I got no complaints
regards
lionel lovitch

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