[OS X TeX] cmr8 not in mapping file

[Chris Skeels]

But Ghostscript is part of MacTeX and the original post in this thread
started with the line:

>  Had to reinstall Mactex.

So maybe there is scope for something to be done in the longer run to avoid
a problem such as this arising again.

Cheers, Chris

On 2/1/10 8:28 AM, "Herbert Schulz" <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 1, 2010, at 3:15 PM, David Arnold wrote:
> 
>> Peter,
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> I'm curious why the people who craft texlive don't handle this situation in
>> the distribution. As far as I can remember, this has been a longstanding
>> problem that certainly has a history at our school, where we would have to
>> set up GSView to find the fonts needed to display a metapost file (maybe
>> Untitled.1) with the correct fonts. Maybe this problem is ignored because
>> mptopdf seems to take care of all of this without problem.
>> 
>> D.
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Probably because Ghostscript has nothing to do with TeX Live.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
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