Re: [MiKTeX] comicsans and yap

[Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...>]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:37:11PM +0000, Ruediger Wapler wrote:
> Dear MiKTeXers,
> 
> I have downloaded the various comicssans afm, tfm and vf files from dante, 
> updated updmap.cfg to include comicsans.map, run initexmf -u and initexmf --
> mkmaps.
> 
> When I have a document with \usepackage{comicssans} and run pdfeTeX on it, 
> everything works fine. However, whenever I try to run e-TeX on exactly the 
> same document and then view it in Yap I get the following error message:

First of all, the reason you not get into trouble using pdflatex is that no
pk/bitmap fonts are needed then. Yap, however, needs pk fonts to display the
file.

> Making PK font:
> C:\Programme\MiKTeX\TeXMF\miktex\bin\makepk.exe --verbose rcomic8r 1493 600 
> magstep(5.0) ljfour
> Trying to make PK font "rcomic8r" (at 1493 DPI)...
> "makemf" --verbose "rcomic8r"
> "ttf2pk" -q -t "rcomic8r"
> Creating "rcomic8r.pk"...
> "gsf2pk" "rcomic8r" "ComicSansMS" "TeXBase1Encoding 
> ReEncodeFont" "8r.enc" "" "1493" "rcomic8r.pk"
> Reading TFM 
> file "C:\Programme\MiKTeX\TeXMFLocal\fonts\tfm\microsoft\comicsans\rcomic8r.t
> fm"...
> Error: The font file could not be found.
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Looking at comicsans.map I find:

rcomic8r ComicSansMS "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc <comic.ttf

I guess the error message means that ttf2pk can't find comic.ttf. Maybe reading
http://www.radamir.com/tex/ttf-tex.htm helps. Searching comp.text.tex is very
useful:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ttf+use+latex&meta=group%3Dcomp.text.tex
Using debugview or filemon (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml)
will tell you what files ttf2pk try to read.

Hope some of this helps. Tell us if you were able to make it work.

Hans