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How does one get MakeTeXPK to find and make ``pk'' from ``vf'' files?  Or should
the dvips use the ``vf'' files directly?  All my paths are right in texmf.cnf
(or appear to be right)

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Timothy L Hughey
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Quote:>How does one get MakeTeXPK to find and make ``pk'' from ``vf'' files?  Or should
>the dvips use the ``vf'' files directly?  All my paths are right in texmf.cnf
>(or appear to be right)

You cannot make pk files from vf files.
dvips uses vf files directly.
A vf file points to other "real" font files,
either PostScript or PK.
For example, ptmr7t.vf points to ptmr0,
which is defined to be an alias for Times-Roman
in .../adobe/times/ptm.map .
This last file has to be appended to .../dvips/psfonts.map
to inform dvips of this alias.

I think the omission of this last step
(appending .../adobe/*/*.map to psfonts.map)
causes a lot of the problems with the very good psnfss package.

If dvips doesn't know of this alias,
it has to assume that ptmr0 is a PK file,
which it tries to manufacture from a non-existent MF file.

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Timothy Murphy  

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