Re: [MiKTeX] is MikTex 2.8 stable enough to replace 2.7?

[Colin M. <col...@ca...>]

You may indeed have an updmap problem, related to others.  Updating in
MiKTeX 2.8 generally has to be done in admin mode to take effect, and
you may be doing it in individual mode.  For example, you might be
using WinEdt which does at least some updating in individual mode (so
it has no effect) and I guess it does all that way.  Several fixes
have been described but the easiest to me is just use the MiKTeK admin
commands to update.

Others will know much more about that than I do and I think the WinEdt
people would do themselves and their users a favor by making available
a full clear explanation of exactly which problems will arise for
WinEdt (are all update procedures affected?  are some of these
procedures invisible to average users?) with easy fixes.

As to the sample file you suggest, it indeed took an impressive long
time downloading and extracting the packages, many minutes on a cable
tv connection, but all with no attention from me.  And where the LaTeX
source called for "\input catalogue" I just substituted a bit of text.
 It came out fine, just took a while getting the packages.

These are chatty log files now from 2.8.  Frankly I wish I understood
log files better than I do.  But as far as I can see the fonts worked
without problem.