[tex-live] marvosym and font missing

George N. White III gnwiii at gmail.com
Wed May 6 01:00:31 CEST 2009


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Leo <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am using texlive basic 2008 on macosx 10.5.6. I install marvosym by
> running 'tlmgr install marvosym'. But I am still getting this:
>
> ,----[ missfont.log ]
> | mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 umvs
> | mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 umvs
> | mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 umvs
> | mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 umvs
> `----
>
> ......
> LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults
> substituted.
>
>  )
> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>  4751 strings out of 494733
>  71607 string characters out of 1170939
>  180916 words of memory out of 3000000
>  7716 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
>  67552 words of font info for 143 fonts, out of 3000000 for 5000
>  188 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
>  35i,8n,35p,246b,248s stack positions out of
>  5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s
> {/usr/local/texlive/2008basic/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm-ec.enc}
> !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file umvs): Font umvs at 600 not found
>  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>
> Any idea how to fix it?

Not without more data.  Do you have a trivial example?  For comparison
(using linux since I'm in the process checking a new build, but MacTeX
should use the same paths).

$ tlmgr show marvosym
Package:    marvosym
Category:   Package
ShortDesc:  Martin Vogel's Symbols (marvosym) font.
LongDesc:   Martin Vogel's Symbol (marvosym) font contains the Euro
currency symbol as defined by the European commission, and also in
shapes to blend with typefaces Times, Helvetica and Courier; symbols
for structural engineering; symbols for steel cross- sections;
astronomy signs (sun, moon, planets); the 12 signs of the zodiac;
scissor symbols; CE sign and others. The font is distributed here as
an Adobe Type 1 font, which was converted from Vogel's original
TrueType; support macros for use with LaTeX are also provided.
Separate packaging for OzTeX users is available.
Installed:  Yes
Revision:   10608
Collection: collection-fontsrecommended
$ cat t.tex
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{marvosym}
\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}
{\small\Smiley}{\Large\Smiley}{\LARGE\Smiley}

\end{document}

$ latex --recorder t
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 7.5.7)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./t.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, basque, pinyin, french, ukenglish, loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/marvosym/marvosym.sty) (./t.aux)
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/marvosym/umvs.fd) [1] (./t.aux) )

Output written on t.dvi (1 page, 288 bytes).
Transcript written on t.log.
$ cat t.fls
PWD /home/gwhite/Testing/TL2008/marvosym
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf.cnf
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt
INPUT t.tex
OUTPUT t.log
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/marvosym/marvosym.sty
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/marvosym/marvosym.sty
INPUT t.aux
INPUT t.aux
OUTPUT t.aux
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/map/fontname/texfonts.map
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/cm/cmr9.tfm
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/marvosym/umvs.fd
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/marvosym/umvs.fd
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/marvosym/umvs.tfm
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/cm/cmr12.tfm
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/marvosym/umvs.tfm
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/cm/cmr17.tfm
INPUT /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/marvosym/umvs.tfm
OUTPUT t.dvi
INPUT t.aux
$ dvips -E -Ppdf -G0 t -o
This is dvips(k) 5.97 Copyright 2008 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2009.05.05:1947' -> t.ps
</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/dvips/base/tex.pro>
</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/dvips/config/alt-rule.pro>
</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/dvips/base/texps.pro>.
</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/marvosym/marvosym.pfb>
[1]

$ ps2pdf t.ps
$ pdffonts t.pdf
name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
AOXHAQ+MarVoSym                      Type 1C           yes yes no       8  0


$ pdflatex t
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 7.5.7)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./t.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, basque, pinyin, french, ukenglish, loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/marvosym/marvosym.sty) (./t.aux)
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/marvosym/umvs.fd) [1{/usr/local/t
exlive/2008/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./t.aux) )</usr/loc
al/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/marvosym/marvosym.pfb>
Output written on t.pdf (1 page, 3441 bytes).
Transcript written on t.log.
$ pdffonts t.pdf
name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
ENHLIN+MarVoSym                      Type 1            yes yes no       4  0

I this example doens't work for you I'll try it on a Mac.  If it does work, then
you need to strip down your input file until you have a minimal example for
others to test.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia


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