Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

This process works in a similar fashion for all programs like pdftex, dvipdfmx, dvips, and xdvi, but texfont only creates a map file for pdftex. Unf, the pdftex map file cannot be used by dvips, so for dvips you have to create your own (like you did).

When you create a map file for dvips for a texfont-installed font family, it needs to have those *-raw-* entries that will map the fonts to the real postscript font files on your harddisk, and those were missing from your bgj.map.

Using the attached map file fragment, I can create a postscript file that has fi ligatures of your example in texnansi encoding using dvips. I have no xdvi here to try it, but that should work as well.

Thanks a lot, with that it works now (with the texnansi encoding)! These facts should be mentioned in the docs. I also have created another map file ec-bgj.map with the entries ec-raw-bgjb ElegantGaramondBT-Bold "ECEncoding ReEncodeFont" schrift.ps . [1] But gv gives an error when I try to view the ps file: Error: /undefined in ECEncoding Operand stack: Fa 139 --nostringval-- 29 13 --nostringval-- 28 38 101 --nostringval-- 3 91.3242 --nostringval-- 91.3242 0 Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1051/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:73/200(L)-- --dict:80/300(L)-- --dict:10/12(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 GPL Ghostscript 8.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 My printer does not print it either. Maybe the reason is that I use lm-ec.enc, but ECEncoding is defined in EC.enc which is slightly different.

The second problem:

texfont simply does not 'do' EC correctly (at least not on my machine). There are simply no fi ligatures, not in pdftex either. I will investigate this further.

On my machine the font works without problems with pdftex (texexec --pdf) and the ec encoding, ligatures and umlauts are okay. Andreas