Re: [MiKTeX] miktex portable 2.8.xxx available anywhere?

[ralph b. <ral...@go...>]

2010/12/30 Ulrike Fischer <li...@ni...>:
> Am Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:17:53 +0100 schrieb ralph buse:
>> [...]
>> problem description: I am working with a linotype font and all the
>> related files reside in my localtexmf tree (fd,map,tfm,sty,...). Every
>> new miktex installation just requires to add this tree and off I go.
>> Eg this works fine with a fresh installation of 2.8 (portable/non
>> portable) but not with 2.9.
>
> Your font is a type1 font? In this case my first guess would be a
> map problem due to two sets of map-files. Make a small example, run
> it with pdflatex (yes: "pdf"latex) and show the log file.

stopping here. right: type1 font. two sets of map-files? I will do the
"small example and log" in the bear future but this "two sets of
map-files" sounds promising. never heard of a restructured / ambiguous
layout / format of map files. Thanks.

>
>> by the way: yap in 2.9 shows the dvi created in 2.8 as expected. The
>> bad dvi created in 2.9 is shown in 2.9 with missing fonts and in 2.8
>> won't open / gives an error message.
>
> Here too: Make a complete example and show the log-files of the
> pdflatex run.
>
> Btw: I just attached a root with the files of a type1 font,
> regenerated the map files and had no problems to use the font with
> pdflatex and with latex + YAP.

again, interesting: "regenerate". will  try to figure out how this works.

> Well I would search CTAN:
>
> mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/setup/basic-miktex-2.8.3761.exe

oops. my mistake. was on sourceforge and on miktex home but ctan.... ts ts.

thanks, Ulrike

Ralph

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