[OS X TeX] simpdftex can't find font, but pdflatex can

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 2.3.2012 um 02:45 schrieb Nathan Sanders:

> The documentation says I can use ttf2pl to generate pfb files, but that's not on my system.  It says I can use fontforge, which I'll try.

(You probably mean ttf2pt1..., or the shell script ttf2type1...) Another utility is available: ttftotype42. This converts TTF to PostScript, by using a wrapper. I've read that dvips can use PostScript Type 42 fonts. So you could create your own MAP file fragment, best saved in the /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local tree, using these wrapped-in font files.

So disable the unnecessary MAP file fragments related to Tengwar, make your MAP file fragment in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local known (maketexlsr/texhash, you could additionally invoke 'sudo updmap-sys --syncwithtrees'), enable you MAP file fragment – and run simpdftex again.

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  Pete

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