#1550 Yap problem with mtpro2 fonts

[KNi]

I have a large educational material that was produced 9 months ago with mtpro2 fonts and miktex 2.4. Now, needing to upgrade material again I tried to compile it with miktex 2.5 and met a yap error "invalid vector<T> subscript" when trying to view the dvi file. However, dvips produced a ps-file that seemed to be ok when view it using ghostview.

[Christian Schenk]

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Thanks, but I need a test case...

[KNi]

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Below is a simple example file. After compling Yap view is OK if display option "PK fonts" is used. However, choosing the option as "Dvips" I receive "invalid vector<T> subscript".

BG
KNi

\documentclass[article]{seminar}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptm}
\usepackage{mtpro2}

\begin{document}

text
$$1+1=2$$

\end{document}

[Bernhard Enders]

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The same problem can be reproduced with a minimal LaTeX file that uses the MinionPro (tested with rc3 version) font package. The problem appears only when using the Dvips render method. All other commands (dvipdfm, dvips, ps2pdf, and pdflatex) works fine.

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I have exactly the same problem with Minion Pro (2.1 rc3) for about 2 weeks. Here is my minimal example (the commented \usepackage are there to easily test other fonts, which work perfectly):

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}%
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}%
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}%
\usepackage{MinionPro}%
%\usepackage{springer}%
%\usepackage{fourier}%
\begin{document}%

Test file for Minion Pro and dvips rendering method.

\end{document}%

The problem appears to be linked with dvips rendering method, not pk rendering, and in my case continuing with dvips or dvidfm gives quite normal ps or pdf files.

Best regards,
B.A.

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In order to avoid the "invalid vector<T> subscript" problem with the RC3 version of MinionPro fonts one has to compile the package (in a linux box or cygwin with lcdf tools, tetex, and perl installed) from the source without the "--pack" option:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.minionpro.berlios.de:/cvsroot/minionpro co MinionPro
cd MinionPro
mkdir otf <-- copy MinionPro-*.otf fonts to this directory (comes with Adobe Reader)!!!
./scripts/makeall

After compilation one have to move all files in the MinionPro base directory to a Windows machine containing MiKTeX 2.5 or 2.6 (with the MnSymbol package installed) and use the following batch script to install the resulting (thousand) package files inside the MiKTeX environment. Remember: using:

./scripts/makeall --pack=./scripts/glyph-list-2.000

triggers the "invalid vector<T> subscript" error. That's all (I hope), the MiKTeX installation batch file follows:

:: BEGIN OF BATCH FILE

@echo off

set vendor=adobe
set font=MinionPro

for /F "tokens=1* delims=: " %%a in ('initexmf --report') do (
if "%%a"=="Install" set dir=%%b
)
if "%dir%" == "" goto error

for /F "tokens=1* delims=: " %%a in ('initexmf --report') do (
if "%%a"=="CommonData" set pk_dir=%%b\fonts\pk
)
if "%pk_dir%" == "" goto error

set enc_dir=%dir%\fonts\enc\dvips\%font%
set map_dir=%dir%\fonts\map\dvips\%font%
set pfb_dir=%dir%\fonts\type1\%vendor%\%font%
set tfm_dir=%dir%\fonts\tfm\%vendor%\%font%
set vf_dir=%dir%\fonts\vf\%vendor%\%font%
set tex_dir=%dir%\tex\latex\%font%
set doc_dir=%dir%\doc\latex\%font%

mkdir "%enc_dir%" "%map_dir%" "%pfb_dir%" "%tfm_dir%" "%vf_dir%" "%tex_dir%" "%doc_dir%"

echo Removing old files, just in case...
del /Q/F "%pfb_dir%*.pfb"
del /Q/F "%enc_dir%*.enc"
del /Q/F "%map_dir%\%font%.map"
del /Q/F "%tex_dir%*.sty"
del /Q/F "%tex_dir%*.cfg"
del /Q/F "%tex_dir%*.fd"
del /Q/F "%tfm_dir%*.tfm"
del /Q/F "%vf_dir%*.vf"

echo Removing pk files, just in case...
del /Q/F/S "%pk_dir%*.pk"

echo Copying files, please wait...
xcopy /Q/Y pfb*.pfb "%pfb_dir%"
xcopy /Q/Y dvips*.enc "%enc_dir%"
xcopy /Q/Y "dvips\%font%.map" "%map_dir%"
xcopy /Q/Y tex*.sty "%tex_dir%"
xcopy /Q/Y tex*.cfg "%tex_dir%"
xcopy /Q/Y tex*.fd "%tex_dir%"
xcopy /Q/Y tfm*.tfm "%tfm_dir%"
xcopy /Q/Y vf*.vf "%vf_dir%"

echo Now add the following lines to the opened file and save:
echo.
echo Map %font%.map
echo MixedMap MnSymbol.map
echo.
initexmf --edit-config-file updmap
pause

:update
initexmf --mkmaps
initexmf --update-fndb
initexmf --mkmaps
goto end

:error
echo.
echo Could NOT determine the MiKTeX installation folder!
goto end

:usage
echo.
echo MiKTeX OTF font installation script.
echo Requires at least one argument to run: the font name.
echo Usage: install.bat MinionPro
echo.
goto end

:end
pause
:: END OF BATCH FILE

[Christian Schenk]

bug.zip

[Christian Schenk]

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File Added: bug.zip

[Christian Schenk]

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bug.zip is a test case which can be used to reproduce the problem.

Using the attached test case, you can reproduce the failure as follows
(this has been verified on two different systems with MikTeX 2.6):

1. pltotf bug.pl bug.tfm
2. tex bug
3. yap bug
   (and switch to the 'dvips' render method if not already done)

(No actual font files or map-file entries are necessary; the bug seems to
occur at this very early stage of processing the DVI and TFM.)

bug.pl actually is a stripped-down version of MinionPro-Regular-Base-aa.pl;
further reduction of its size proved very difficult: When some character is
removed (or even when the width of some character is changed (?!)), the
message "invalid vector<T> subscript" does not show anymore. (I did not
check each and every combination, only 3 or 4 changes.)