Bug#175342: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#175342: Can't use URW Nimbus fonts at all)
On Sun, 05 Jan 2003, +15:45:03 EET (UTC +0200),
Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi> pressed some keys:
>
> On Sun, 05 Jan 2003, +14:20:19 EET (UTC +0200),
> Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net> pressed some keys:
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> > On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 04:47:54AM +0200, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> > > On Sun, 05 Jan 2003, +04:38:06 EET (UTC +0200),
> > > Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org> pressed some keys:
> > >
> > > > On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 10:44:36PM +0200, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > \renewcommand\sfdefault{uhv}
> > > >
> > > > This should be {phv}
> > >
> > > That way I can use Helvetica-fonts by Adobe, not URW Nimbus-fonts.
> >
> > Edit the file /etc/texmf/updmap.cfg according to your preferences on
> > this point; I believe that the URW fonts are the default on Debian
> > systems.
>
> Let's see... /usr/share/texmf/fontname/urw.map mentions those URW Nimbus
> Sans L-fonts, but /etc/texmf/updmap.cfg don't mention urw.map . If I
> just add a line "Map urw.map", it does not help. I still get error
> messages like this:
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> LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T1/uhv/m/n' undefined
> (Font) using `T1/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 25.
>
> And this does not help, either:
>
> ln -s /usr/share/texmf/fontname/urw.map /etc/texmf/dvips/urw.map
> ln -s /usr/share/texmf/fontname/urw.map /usr/share/texmf/dvips/xypic/urw.map
Argh... According to questions 81 and 83 of The UK TeX FAQ it seems,
that I must create font metric-files with fontinst.
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1 and /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw exist.
but /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/urw do not exist!
There exist also some program called afm2tfm .
I'll try to use that fontinst first. Let's see, what happens.
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