George, My thanks to you for your detailed descriptions. Here are some findings: On Wed Apr26'23 11:25:02AM, George N. White III wrote: > From: "George N. White III" <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 11:25:02 -0300 > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: bitmap font error on F38 > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 4:01 PM Ranjan Maitra <mlmaitra@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am also having the following error with pdflatex upon upgrading to F38 > > from F37. > > > > pathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+120/600 --dpi 720 > > eurm10 > > mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for eurm10. > > mktexpk: perhaps eurm10 is missing from the map file. > > kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. > > (see the transcript file for additional information) > > !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file eurm10): Font eurm10 at 720 not found > > ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! > > > > > > How do I get around this issue? > > > > TeX uses fontmap files that should tell pdflatex to use eurm10 font data, > which includes .PostScript (.pfb format) files. Sometimes users run > things that generate fontmap and format files in their user directory and > which then hides recent changes to the system files. > > OpenType supports upright variants: > > See: > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/145926/upright-greek-font-fitting-to-computer-modern > Thanks for this. There is an example there which essentially rewrites the upgreek variants. I think that I can make it work for me, but! > Your example "works for me" in Debian with their TeX Live packages, and on > Fedora using CTAN TeX Live 2023. The eurm10 fonts are present, but I > didn't have > upgreek.sty. > > This F38 system has: > > Installed Packages > Name : texlive-amsfonts > Epoch : 10 > Version : svn61937 > Release : 65.fc38 > Architecture : noarch > Size : 5.9 M > Source : texlive-2022-65.fc38.src.rpm > Repository : @System > From repo : fedora > Summary : TeX fonts from the American Mathematical Society > URL : http://tug.org/texlive/ > License : OFL-1.1 > Description : An extended set of fonts for use in mathematics, including: > : extra mathematical symbols; blackboard bold letters > (uppercase > : only); fraktur letters; subscript sizes of bold math italic > and > : bold Greek letters; subscript sizes of large symbols such as > : sum and product; added sizes of the Computer Modern small > caps > : font; cyrillic fonts (from the University of Washington); > Euler > : mathematical fonts. All fonts are provided as Adobe Type 1 > : files, and all except the Euler fonts are provided as > Metafont > : source. The distribution also includes the canonical Type 1 > : versions of the Computer Modern family of fonts. Plain TeX > and > : LaTeX macros for using the fonts are provided. > > and includes: > > $ find /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts -name eurm10\* > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/amsfonts/euler/eurm10.tfm > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/amsfonts/euler/eurm10.afm > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/euler/eurm10.pfb > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/euler/eurm10.pfm > So, I have this package installed/updated, and: $ find /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts -name eurm10\* /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/euler/eurm10.pfm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/euler/eurm10.pfb /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/amsfonts/euler/eurm10.afm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/amsfonts/euler/eurm10.tfm > For the .sty file you need to install the Walter Schmidt (was)package: > texlive-was. Yes, I have this installed from the Fedora sources. > > TeX Live 2003 from CTAN has: > > $ find /usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/fonts -name eurm10\* > /usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/amsfonts/euler/eurm10.afm > /usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/amsfonts/euler/eurm10.tfm > /usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/euler/eurm10.pfb > /usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/euler/eurm10.pfm > > Check that the generated fontmap has eurm10 entries: > > $ grep -F 'eurm10' /usr/share/texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map > eurm10 EURM10 <eurm10.pfb > eurm9 EURM10 <eurm10.pfb > eurmo10 EURM10 " .167 SlantFont " <eurm10.pfb > So, unlike you, I have only one entry here: $ grep -F 'eurm10' /usr/share/texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map eurmo10 EURM10 " .167 SlantFont " <eurm10.pfb > Note that support for PostScript fonts is disappearing, so it should not be > surprising to > encounter surprises when trying to use pfb fonts because fewer people are > using them and discoveriing problems. Many long-time TeX users > don't really understand font technologies and are resistant to change, but > if > you can switch to OpenType fonts it should reduce surprises as they have > become mainstream. > I see, I have seen publishers that hang on to things far worse. I have many howlers to retell:-) Anyway, but what surprises me is that someone on this list (Jerry) was able to run the same file on F38. I do not believe that I have anything special locally installed on LaTeX. Thanks again to everybody for their help and suggestions! Best wishes, Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
