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- From: lee@ceg.uiuc.edu (Chris Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Xtex on hp 700s: font problems
- Keywords: Xtex has problems making fonts
- Message-ID: <lee.721499939@ceg.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 16:38:59 GMT
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- I'm trying to get Xtex (2.18.5) to work on a HP9000/720 machine. For
- some reason, the fonts just don't seem to be made properly...it does
- display the encapsulated postscript figures, but the text looks quite
- horrible because of the fonts.
-
- I have the full TeX3.14 distribution installed, and I am using
- HPUX 8.07 and HPs C compiler (not the bundled one).
-
- In the config file, I have defined:
- XTEX_FONT_PATH=/admin/tex/lib/xtex
- FontDesc=/admin/tex/lib/fontdesc
-
- When the directory /admin/tex/lib/xtex exists, Xtex exits with the
- following error.
-
- X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
- Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath)
- Value in failed request: 0x5
- Serial number of failed request: 136
- Current serial number in output stream: 187
-
- When the directory does not exist, Xtex goes on and tells me all the
- fonts it's missing, and in the dialogue box gives the messages (1 of many)
- TeXtoXfont cmr10 85 85 1000 sun /admin/tex/lib/xtex 2>&1
- and
- [ exec ] TeXtoXfont cmr10 85 85 1000 sun /admin/tex/lib/xtex 2>&1
- ./TeXtoXfont: xdpyinfo: not found
- 1st mftobdf -dpi 85 cmr10
- mf \mode:=sun; mag:=1000/1000; scrollmode; input cmr10 </dev/null
- This is METAFONT, C Version 2.7
- [ LOTSA METAFONT OUTPUT deleted]
- Font metrics written on cmr10.tfm.
- Output written on cmr10.85gf (128 characters, 5156 bytes).
- Transcript written on cmr10.log.
- mftobdf -dpi 85 cmr10
- Mftobdf failed for some reason on cmr10.85.bdf
- Missing cmr10.85 ( -mag 1000 -scaled 1000 cmr10 )
-
- Now, I can't find the tfm and 85gf files ANYWHERE! Also, the fact that
- mftobdf fails sorta troubles me. I tried running mftobdf manually, and
- even there, no output seems to be written.
-
- Is this (yet) another X fontism that I am not aware of?
- Has anyone had similar problems (and hopefully solutions)?
-
- Thanks in advance.
- --
- Chris Lee
- University of Illinois Urbana
- lee@ceg.uiuc.edu
- (217)244-2903
-