Texlive, error on \input

Ramses de Norre · 2008-02-06 21:03:25

Hi

I'm using texlive-svn from community and I'm having a problem when trying to use some fonts, when I put this in my preamble:

\input Eichenla.fd

I get following warning:

fonts.tex:0: pdflatex (file Eichenla): Font Eichenla at 720 not foundOutput written on fonts.pdf (1 page, 3270 bytes).

and the new font isn't available (I get whitespace when trying to use it).
I'm sure the right file is available:

$ locate Eichenla.fd
/opt/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/initials/Eichenla.fd

Does anyone know why I'm unable to use this font?

EDIT: it seems that it works with a latex -> dvipdfmx chain, but not when using pdflatex or ps2pdf in the chain. I'd like to use pdflatex...

Last edited by Ramses de Norre (2008-02-06 21:14:08)

arooaroo · 2008-02-07 00:08:18

I think it's because those fonts are Postscript binary files. You can't embed PS into PDFs.

Think how when you use 'latex' your graphics have to be EPS/PS, where as when using 'pdflatex', they can be PNG/JPEG/PDF but *not* PS/EPS.

skottish · 2008-02-07 03:12:33

Holy cow arooaroo! That's a nice set of tutorials you wrote.

arooaroo · 2008-02-07 12:16:28

Why thank you I hope people find them useful.

finferflu · 2008-02-07 12:21:30

Ah! I notice them just now Gonna dig straight in
One thing that LaTeX misses, as far as I can see, is a nice set of rationally-organised tutorials, so I think your website provides something really needed for people like me

Ramses de Norre · 2008-02-07 13:12:01

arooaroo wrote:

I think it's because those fonts are Postscript binary files. You can't embed PS into PDFs.
Think how when you use 'latex' your graphics have to be EPS/PS, where as when using 'pdflatex', they can be PNG/JPEG/PDF but *not* PS/EPS.

You are probably right, back to the irritating long toolchains then... Thanks for your insight

arooaroo · 2008-02-07 13:31:19

Speed it up with a nifty shell script or Makefile, I guess.

Stefan Husmann · 2008-02-07 21:05:14

Did you try a updmap-sys --syncwithtrees as root?

Stefan Husmann · 2008-02-07 21:28:34

I got the same error. Try to remove /opt/texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map

and then try again. I tried the following file and it worked after the deletion.

\documentclass[a4paper,DIVcalc,BCOR8mm,twoside]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern,lettrine}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\widowpenalty10000\raggedbottom\input Eichenla.fd
\begin{document} \lettrine{\usefont{U}{Eichenla}{xl}{n}T}{his} is a
test. This is really only a test. Dont dig too deep into this text.
Believe me, I only talk so much, because this is a test I want to
have some lines in it. This is really only a test. Dont dig too deep
into this text. Believe me, I only talk so much, because this is a
test I want to have some lines in it.
\end{document}

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#1 2008-02-06 21:03:25

Texlive, error on \input

#2 2008-02-07 00:08:18

Re: Texlive, error on \input

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