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lucasdemarchi

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latex: problem with fonts

Hi, I'm trying to use a palatino font and for this I first tried mathpazo:
\usepackage[sc]{mathpazo}

Then, I tried also pxfonts:
\usepackage{pxfonts}

None of these worked on archlinux. However my document compiles ok on my friend's computer.

When compiling it, I get some messages like:

dvips: Font fplmri not found,  using cmr10 instead.
dvips: Font pplrc8r not found,  using cmr10 instead.

dvips: Font fplmri not found,  using cmr10 instead.
</usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/dpi600/cmr10.pk>
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+760/(2*4000) --dpi 8760 fplmr
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for fplmr.
dvips: Font fplmr not found,  using cmr10 instead.
</usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/dpi600/cmr10.pk>
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+1128/(2*4000) --dpi 9128 cmr10
mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 8000; ignoring mode.
mktexpk: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=dpdfezzz; mag:=1+1128/(2*4000); nonstopmode; input cmr10
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2009/Arch Linux)

How can I fix it?

thanks

adrians

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Registered: 2009-05-05

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Re: latex: problem with fonts

Try XeTeX! It comes with TeX Live packages.

lucasdemarchi

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Re: latex: problem with fonts

@adrians:

Short question: do all the things that are working with latex would work with XeTeX?

adrians

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Re: latex: problem with fonts

There might be problems with additional packages -- some extra math font packages like mathdesign. But most of LaTeX things works well. If you want to use this Palatino font package with math support, XeTeX might not be a good idea. With XeTeX you should stick to font types it's supposed to work with.

lucasdemarchi

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Re: latex: problem with fonts

Humn... it's exactly this font I need.

So, for this document I'm making, XeTeX is not a solution. Perhaps to another thesis... ;-). Thanks anyway

boulde

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Registered: 2009-10-05

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Re: latex: problem with fonts

palatino works well for me (with pdflatex but it shouldn't change with latex).

bender02

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Re: latex: problem with fonts

- make sure you actually do have these fonts installed (you should have files fplmri.pfb and pplrc8r.pfb somewhere under /usr/share/texlive-dist/fonts/)
- first try 'sudo updmap-sys', maybe together with temporary moving ~/.texlive somewhere else (this resets the texlive user config)
- if that doesn't help, try 'updmap --enable Map=pazo.map' and 'updmap --enable Map=fpls.map' (this explicitly tells texlive that it should use these two map files, which contain mappings for the fonts mentioned in your original post).

lucasdemarchi

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Registered: 2009-03-26

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Re: latex: problem with fonts

@bender02:
the last command made the job!  Thank you!!

I still got some other errors, thought:
dvips: Font cmsy10 at 6669 not found; scaling 600 instead.
dvips: Such scaling will generate extremely poor output.

Do you know what is this?