Re: [Pyx-user] use on windows

[Joerg L. <jo...@us...>]

Hi Brett,

On 19.09.03, Brett Calcott wrote:
> I got the whole Miktex distro -- I'll have a look at getting it going later.
> It doesn't look like the includes & libs are the same as you have specified.

Ok, that may well be the case. In fact, I have never used MikTeX... On
the other hand, the fallback solution via kpsewhich should be fine -
only a little slower but otherwise fully functional.

> Getting better, but still no luck. sorry, I just don't know the font stuff
> in latex well enough to guess what is going on.
> 
> X:\pyx\examples>cat hello.py
> from pyx import *
> text.set(mode="latex")
> text.preamble(r"\usepackage{times}")
> c = canvas.canvas()
> c.text(0, 0, "Hello, world!")
> c.stroke(path.line(0, 0, 2, 0))
> c.writetofile("hello")
> 
> X:\pyx\examples>python hello.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "hello.py", line 7, in ?
>     c.writetofile("hello")
>   File "c:\python23\Lib\site-packages\pyx\canvas.py", line 936, in
> writetofile
>     for pritem in self.prolog():
>   File "c:\python23\Lib\site-packages\pyx\canvas.py", line 661, in prolog
>     result.extend(cmd.prolog())
>   File "c:\python23\lib\site-packages\pyx\text.py", line 1784, in prolog
>     return result + self.texrunner.prolog(self.dvinumber, self.page)
>   File "c:\python23\lib\site-packages\pyx\text.py", line 2090, in prolog
>     self.getdvi()
>   File "c:\python23\lib\site-packages\pyx\text.py", line 2084, in getdvi
>     self.dvifiles.append(DVIFile(dvifilename, debug=self.dvidebug))
>   File "c:\python23\lib\site-packages\pyx\text.py", line 689, in __init__
>     self.readfile()
>   File "c:\python23\lib\site-packages\pyx\text.py", line 1091, in readfile
>     state = self._read_page()
>   File "c:\python23\lib\site-packages\pyx\text.py", line 1049, in _read_page
>     file.read(file.readuchar()+file.readuchar()))
>   File "c:\python23\lib\site-packages\pyx\text.py", line 777, in definefont
>     self.fonts[num] =  Font(fontname, c, q, d, self.tfmconv, self.debug > 1)
>   File "c:\python23\lib\site-packages\pyx\text.py", line 520, in __init__
>     raise RuntimeError("no information for font '%s' found in font mapping
> file,
>  aborting" % name)
> RuntimeError: no information for font 'ptmr7t' found in font mapping file,
> aborting

Ah, you need to enable virtual font support via dvicopy. Please try

        text.set(mode="latex", dvicopy=1)

Hopefully that works with MikTeX!

        Jörg

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