[tex-live] problem with fonts -- how do i debug this?

Jim Young jim.young at ucalgary.ca
Tue Jun 9 21:11:19 CEST 2009


Hi all,
  I have a problem with fonts and  I am not sure where to start. Here is the
rundown

I have two texlive installs on different machines. On a linux (debian)
machine I have texlive-2007 and i can get everything to work without any
problems. It is my windows machien running texlive-2008 that causes my
problems.

I am installing the MinionPro font package, which is where the problem
happens.

I followed the CTAN directions for installing MinionPro and it works
seamlessly on my linux machine, and has for a while. But I cannot get it to
work on the windows machine.

When I use the minionpro package in a document, it compiles fine until the
last moment:

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!pdfTeX error: pdflatex.exe (file MinionPro-It-Base-ab): Font
MinionPro-It-Base-ab at 545 not found
  ==> Fatal error occured, no output PDF file produced!
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 0+545/600 --dpi 545
MinionPro-It-Base-ab
kpathsea: Appending font creating commands to missfont.log.
----

if i run the mktexpk command myself
----
C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32>mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag
0+545/600 --dpi 545 MinionPro-It-Base-ab
Cannot find MinionPro-It-Base-ab.mf .
I try ps2pk --> gsftopk --> ttf2pk --> hbf2gf.
ps2pk cannot be used.
I try gsftopk.
gsftopk.exe MinionPro-It-Base-ab 545
gsftopk cannot be used.
Next I try ttf2pk.
ttf2pk.exe -q MinionPro-It-Base-ab 545
ttf2pk failed.
Finally I try hbf2gf.
hbf2gf.exe -q -p MinionPro-It-Base-ab 545
All trials failed.
-- 

Now, there are no minionpro .mf files /anywhere/ on my system. they also do
not exist on my linux texlive2007 system, but it still works fine. what is
an mf file, and where does it come from? is there a script i need to run
specifically for texlive 2008 to generate these?

also, check out:

---
C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32>kpsewhich MinionPro-It-Base-ab.tfm
c:/Program
Files/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/fonts/tfm/adobe/minionpro/MinionPro-It-Base-ab.tfm
C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32>kpsewhich MinionPro-It-Base-ab.mf
  <empty result >
---

Whats /really/ causing this mf problem? the tfms i generated ages ago before
i switched to texlive, i think i used tetex at the time but it has been
years. do i suddenly need to regenerate these for 2008?

any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Thanks

Jim

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James Young, B.Sc.
Ph.D. Candidate
Interactions laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of
Calgary
2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
Phone: +1.403.210.9502
E-mail: jim.young at ucalgary.ca
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