[texhax] postscript font installation

[William Rosenbaum]

Thank you for your response!

I realized that I had a partial installation of an older version of texlive installed on the machine, so I ended up reinstalling texlive. The problem persisted, but I noticed that I had (foolishly) set the environment variable DVIPSHEADERS at some point in my desperate attempts to get the fonts working. After un-defining that variable everything seems to be working as it should.

Thanks again!

Will

On Oct 22, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Lars Madsen wrote:

> Are you certain you are using texlive 2012?
> 
> In that case which one? The Ubuntu one, og the one supplied by TUG?
> 
> I assume a map file needs to be activated, did you do that? and did you first verify that kpsewhich could find the map file?
> 
> /Lars Madsen
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: texhax [texhax-bounces at tug.org] on behalf of William Rosenbaum [will.rosenbaum at gmail.com]
> Sent: 22 October 2012 19:16
> To: support at tug.org
> Subject: [texhax] postscript font installation
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install MinionPro on my new machine running Ubuntu. I am using tex-live 2012, and I followed the instructions at
> 
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/minionpro
> 
> to install the fonts. I use latex - dvips - ps2pdf to compile my latex. But when I run dvips I get the following error:
> 
> will at noga:~/Dropbox/Essays$ dvips MathAsLiterature.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.98 Copyright 2009 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2012.10.22:1007' -> MathAsLiterature.ps
> 
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+185/600 --dpi 785 MinionPro-Regular-Base-aa
> mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for MinionPro-Regular-Base-aa.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
> dvips: Font MinionPro-Regular-Base-aa not found,  using cmr10 instead.
> </usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/dpi600/cmr10.pk>
> dvips: Design size mismatch in font MinionPro-Regular-Base-aa
> 
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 0+491/600 --dpi 491 MinionPro-Regular-Base-aa
> mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for MinionPro-Regular-Base-aa.
> dvips: Font MinionPro-Regular-Base-aa not found,  using cmr10 instead.
> </usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/dpi600/cmr10.pk>
> dvips: Design size mismatch in font MinionPro-Regular-Base-aa
> dvips: ! invalid char 243 from font MinionPro-Regular-Base-aa
> 
> I followed the same steps to install the fonts on my previous computer (running Mac OS X) and everything worked perfectly, so I'm not sure what's going on with my current installation. I wonder if you could help me troubleshoot these problems?
> 
> Thanks for you help!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Will
> 
> 
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