Bug#100822: marked as done (Missing Postscript fonts for msam and msbm)
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Package: tetex-extra
Version: 1.0.2+20000804-7
The math blackboard font \mathbb{} from the amsfonts style file uses fonts
whose names start with msbm. Some sizes of the font msbm are only
included as METAFONT input (.mf) and TeX font metrics (.tfm), but not as a
Postscript Font Binary (.pfb) files. The Postscript fonts are essential
when one wants to generate good-quality PDF files e.g. with dvipdfm.
Only the files msbm5.pfb, msbm7.pfb and msbm10.pfb are included with
tetex-extra. CTAN:fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/pfb/ lists also the sizes 6, 8
and 9. The same applies to the msam fonts that presumably also belong to
the amsfonts package.
Marko Mäkelä
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From: "C.M. Connelly" <cmc@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#100822: Missing Postscript fonts for msam and msbm
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The font files you mention are not included with teTeX because of
restrictions on distribution imposed by their license; see
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/BaKoMa-AMS.Fonts>.
teTeX includes the free BlueSky/Y&Y/AMS Type 1 fonts, which do not
include all of the size variants that are available with the
bitmap fonts or with the Bakoma fonts. (The specific fonts you
mentioned are actually part of the AMSFonts distribution.)
The _User's Guide to AMSFonts Version 2.2_
(/usr/share/doc/texmf/fonts/amsfont/amsfndoc.dvi.gz) has the
following to say on this matter (pg. 6):
All of the above packages have a `psamsfonts' option that
should be used if and only if your copy of the AMSFonts
collection is the Y&Y/Blue Sky Research PostScript version. In
that version, the font files are not provided in all the sizes
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, but only in sizes 10, 7, 5, with sizes 6, 8,
9 produced by interpolation. In practice it's easy to tell if
you need to use the psamsfonts option: you'll get an error
message about a missing .tfm file:
! Font \U/AMSa/m/n/9=msam9 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
where the mentioned font name is one of the AMS font names
(msam, msbm, eufm, etc.), and the font size is 6, 8, or 9. If
this happens to you, look at your \usepackage statements and
change
\usepackage{amssymb} to \usepackage[psamsfonts]{amssymb}
or
\usepackage{eucal} to \usepackage[psamsfonts]{eucal}
and so forth.
The reason that use of the PostScript AMSfonts is explicitly
marked in individual documents is that the interpolation
process used for sizes 6, 8, 9 does not produce character
metrics that are identical with those of the noninterpolated
font files for those sizes. If these discrepancies were simply
ignored, documents exchanged between colleagues might easily
suffer unexpected changes in line breaks (and hence possibly
page breaks), *without any warnings.* As it is, if you find it
necessary to add or remove the psamsfonts option in order to
print a colleague's document, you are free to go ahead and do
so, but the fact that you must make that change should be
understood as a reminder that a small possibility of changed
line breaks or page breaks does exist.
In summary, add the psamsfonts option to the package load line to
get the interpolated PostScript Blackboard Bold fonts you need.
CMC
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a dozen spikes of microsoft protruding from the socket behind his ear.
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C.M. Connelly c@eskimo.com SHC, DS
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