Re: [MiKTeX] pifonts

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

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:20:38PM -0300, Agustín E. Bolzán wrote:
> Dear Miktexers,
> 
> I do not understand why it happens now, but in the past
> I could use the pifont package and see the dingbats in my
> documents. Now, after some time and some upgrades of MikTeX,
> there is no way to get dingbats.
> I put \usepackage{pifont} in the preamble and \Pisymbol{pzd}{51} in the
> text and it appears number "3" instead. As this was possible
> in the past it seems to me that there is some problem with
> the installation of MikTex and that it is not a TeX-related
> problem. Any clue?

Well, I have an up-to-date MiKTeX and your example works nicely - I get a
check mark. (Nice symbol; I should start using it.) My best bet is to
run "initexmf -u" and then "initexmf --mkmaps".

Hans