Re: [MiKTeX] Need help with PS fonts and upgrading to newer versionof MikTeX

[Ulrike F. <li...@ni...>]

am Dienstag, 24. April 2007 um 14:43 schrieb Dan Harding:


>>> The psdan.map file contains the following 5 lines of text:
>>=20
>>> %psfonts_t1.map: created by the mkfntmap program.
>>> rpucb Univers-CondensedBold
>>> rpucbo Univers-CondensedBoldOblique
>>> rpucr Univers-Condensed
>>> rpucro Univers-CondensedOblique
>>=20
>> This doesn't seem right. Are you sure that this ever worked? The
>> lines should at least also contain the name of the pfb that you want
>> to embed. An entry similar to e.g. one of utopia should be correct: =20
>>=20
>> putbi8r Utopia-BoldItalic " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc
>> <putbi8a.pfb=20
>>=20

> I've been using MiKTeX on an annual project for the last 5 years. This fo=
nt
> configuration has always worked for me.

Entries like "rpucb Univers-CondensedBold" can work. But they mean
that dvips doesn't embed the font, so ghostscript or whatever you are
using to process or print the ps has to know about univers-condensedbold and
how to find the font. Enabling this is not a miktex issue.

> The last time I had to switch
> workstations (2005), the shift was much easier, as the folder hierarchies
> between the two versions of MiKTeX were the same. It was simply a question
> of copying files to their corresponding location on the new install,
> updating the name database, and off I went. No problem.

> The change from 2005 to 2007 in terms of the way MiKTeX works appears to =
be
> much more radical. It's more complicated than simply moving files.

No. The folder hierarchy didn't change. Only the name and the location
of the main folders of the texmf trees. I e.g. simply added my old
local texmf tree (after a bit of cleaning) as a new root to miktex
2.5. and this work fines.

The main difference between 2.4. and 2.5. is that in 2.4. localtexmf
contained the automated generated files (like .fndb and .pk) and
config files like updmap.cfg and local styles -- which did make it
difficult to backup. That's why I have used since a long time
additional roots (mytexmf) for my styles and important config files.

Also miktex 2.4. used updmap.cfg in the same way as miktex 2.5. The
only new thing is that you can now access it with initexmf. But this
isn't obligatory, I e.g. simply copied my old updmap.cfg the config
tree.


> If I had the option, I'd simply find the install files for the old version
> of MiKTeX I installed in 2005 and be done with it, as I have absolutely no
> use at all for new features. Version 2.4.1461 had everything I needed. :(

This wouldn't help. The install files doesn't contain your fonts --
and installing them in 2.4. is quite similar to the installation in
2.5. If you fail in 2.5. you won't be able to do it in 2.4. neither.


--=20
Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen
Ulrike Fischer
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