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From: Charles Karney <karney@pppl.gov>
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 13:21:55 -0500
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To: braams@MFDD2.CIMS.NYU.EDU (Bastiaan J. Braams)
Cc: tex-k@cs.umb.edu
In-Reply-To: braams@MFDD2.CIMS.NYU.EDU's message of 26 Feb 1995 18:04:30 -0500
Subject: don't understand MakeTeXPK
Reply-To: karney@princeton.edu
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> From: braams@MFDD2.CIMS.NYU.EDU (Bastiaan J. Braams)
> Date: 26 Feb 1995 18:04:30 -0500
>
> I am installing TeX/MF and don't understand the role of the program
> MakeTeXPK. Please clarify.
>
> In the README in /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src it is said:
> If you want a Makefile to generate bitmap fonts in advance, instead of
> generating them on the fly with MakeTeXPK, take a look at Makefile.gf in
> this directory.
> Well, *should* I want to generate bitmap fonts in advance?
No, generally, it's a better idea to generate the bitmap fonts on the fly
and have some cron procedure to delete bitmap files after some interval
with no access.
> ...
> Transcript written on cmr10.log.
> Cannot create directory "/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk/ljfour": Permission denied
> /usr/local/bin/MakeTeXPK: Could not mkdir /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk/ljfour.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
> dvips: Font cmr10 not found, characters will be left blank.
> [...]
>
> What is going on here? Should I become super-user again and run MakeTeXPK
> before giving the system over to users? If so, with what arguments? Or
> should I change permission flags for /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk?
What we do is (as root)
mkdir /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk/{ljfour,cx,...}
chmod 777 /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk/{ljfour,cx,...}
Repeat for whatever printer types you have on site. Then MakeTeXPK should
run OK.
You probably also want to edit MakeTeXPK and config.ps to set the default
printer type to be something than ljfour. In our case it's cx.
[Bas, our installation notes are available as
/afs/pppl.gov/common/admin/doc/software/web2c]