Thanks everybody.
I think we have come close to a solution...
I used the batch file Willy advised me. (Afm2tfm is interrupted, when called through texfont; I don't know why. Everything seems to work normally though.) It generates a lot of font files in a batch. Very handy, I must say!
After that I tried my test file again. Still the palatino font is still not found. I don't know anything about my hudson font.
I guess I still need your help, it's very much appreciated!
See the log fragments below.
Kind regards,
Robert
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This is my test file:
\setupoutput[pdftex]
\definetypeface[hudson][rm][serif][palatino][default]
\setupbodyfont[hudson,12pt,rm]
\starttext
\input tufte
\stoptext
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With option pdftex there still is an error message:
Warning: PDFETEX (file ec-raw-uplr8a): Font ec-raw-uplr8a at 720 not found
Output written on testhuds-con.pdf (1 page, 1869 bytes).
Transcript written on testhuds-con.log.
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I do have these tfm variants of uplr8a:
tex\texmf\fonts\tfm\urw\palatino\ec-raw-uplr8a.tfm
tex\texmf\fonts\tfm\urw\palatino\ec-raw-uplr8a-capitalized-800.tfm
tex\texmf\fonts\tfm\urw\palatino\ec-raw-uplr8a-slanted-167.tfm
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I also tried dvi --> dvips --> ps, but alas.
D:\Fonts\hudson>dvips testhuds-con
This is dvips(k) 5.94b Copyright 2004 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2004.12.08:2058' -> testhuds-con.ps
- miktex_make_pk_font (ec-raw-uplr8a, 720, 600, ljfour)
Trying to make PK font "ec-raw-uplr8a" (at 720 DPI)...
"makemf" --verbose "ec-raw-uplr8a"
"ttf2pk" -q -t "ec-raw-uplr8a"
MAKEPK: "ec-raw-uplr8a.pk" could not be created.
J:\TEX\TEXMF\MIKTEX\BIN\DVIPS.EXE: Font ec-raw-uplr8a.720pk not found, characters will be left blank.