Bug#163483: txfonts: Workaround
On 06.10.02 Ajay Shah (ajayshah@mayin.org) wrote:
> Radhakrishnan CV <cvr@river-valley.org> said --
Hi,
> > That is not a problem of Debian, pdfTeX or pdfscreen, Ajay. You might
> > note that txfonts make use of the ghostscript equivalents of Times,
> > Helvetica and the like which are named like n021004l.pfb, n019004l,
> > etc.
>
AFAICS this is not more true, since the txfonts have been merged into
tetex-base.
> > The manual of txfonts mentions this somewhere. Unfortunately,
> > these fonts are in the ghostscript or system fonts directory, but not
> > visible to pdfTeX. You might copy these 'n' series *.pfb files from
> > ghostscript/system fonts directory to $TEXMF/fonts/type1/<txfonts
> > directory>. Run texhash, you're done.
> >
> > See my locations of n019004l.pfb:
> >
> > TeX:
> > /opt/TeX/texmf/fonts/type1/txr/n019004l.pfb
> >
> > System:
> > /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019004l.pfb
>
> It worked! I did
>
> # cd /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1
> # mkdir txfonts
> # cd txfonts
> # cp /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n0*pfb .
> # texhash
>
So it think this workaround is not more necessary. Is the behaviour
still reproducible with a current teTeX-installation?
Hilmar
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