[OS X TeX] Combining PSTricks and Metapost

[David Arnold]

All,

We have developed a testing system that serves up quizzes to our  
students on-the-fly. Our database contains both Metapost code and  
PSTricks code in some instances, so we are currently compiling with  
the attached script: OTlatex.pl.

I've also provided a sample file, fonttest.tex. You can run the script  
by first making it executable with chmod +x OTlatex.pl and executing:

./OTlatex.pl fonttest

on the attached fonttest.tex.

This perl script essentially runs the following commands in this order:

1. latex --shell-escape fonttest.tex

2. dvips -o fonttest-pics.ps fonttest.dvi

3. ps2pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/None fonttest-pics.ps fonttest-pics.pdf

4. pdflatex tonttest.tex

Using Mactex (Texlive 2008), after running steps 1, 2, and 3 above,  
the result is the attached file fonttest-pics.pdf. The difficulty is  
the fact that the wrong font is used and the minus sign is missing.  
Interesting enough, after executing the 4th step, the attached  
fonttest.pdf use the correct font and the minus sign appears.  
Curiously enough, at step 2, we get the following log:

' TeX output 2009.08.28:2051' -> fonttest-pics.ps
dvips: Font cmsy10 used in file fonttest.1 is not in the mapping file.
dvips: Font cmr10 used in file fonttest.1 is not in the mapping file.
</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/dvips/base/tex.pro>
</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pstricks.pro>
</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pst-algparser.pro>
</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pst-dots.pro>
</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/dvips/pst-bar/pst-bar.pro>
</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pst-node.pro>
</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks-add/pstricks-add.pro>
</usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/dvips/base/special.pro>. [1<./fonttest. 
1>]

The following two lines are of concern:

dvips: Font cmsy10 used in file fonttest.1 is not in the mapping file.
dvips: Font cmr10 used in file fonttest.1 is not in the mapping file.

Even more curious, although fonttest-pics.pdf does not display the  
correct font and the minus sigh is missing, Acrobat reports that the  
fonts CMR10 and CMSY10 are partially embedded.

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Because the final product fonttest.pdf is correct, none of this is a  
problem on our Macs. However, we are running this on a Redhat  
Enterprise 4 server on which we've updated to texlive 2008, and the  
final product (fonttest.pdf) is using the wrong font and the minus  
sign is missing.

We are at a loss of what to do. Can anyone shed some light on our  
difficulty?

P.S. We do know that the linux server is only using ghostscript 7.07.  
but we are getting the same error at step 2 above on both the linux  
server and our mac machine, namely:

dvips: Font cmsy10 used in file fonttest.1 is not in the mapping file.
dvips: Font cmr10 used in file fonttest.1 is not in the mapping file.

Any help appreciated.

David Arnold
College of the Redwoods
http://msemac.redwoods.edu/~darnold/index.php







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