[OS X TeX] cmr8 not in mapping file

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 1, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Chris Skeels wrote:

> 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)
>> 

Howdy,

My point still stands since TeX Live was mentioned when Ghostscript was meant. As Karl has shown it is in fact something that has to do with metapost and its ConTeXt ``roots'' and is easily solved by eliminating an input. So, in some way it has to do with TeX Live rather than anything to do with Ghostscript; i.e., there is no need to change Ghostscript at all.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)