Re: Problem with dvi2pdf or pdftex

Dear list readers,
unfortunately I today have problems of a similar kind.

Actually they are numerous, but I will confine myself to a following  
minimal example (note that I, as OP here, am based in Norway where we  
use æøå as extensions to english alphabet).

My situation: Trying to get MiKTeX 2.9 installation to work on a  
freshly installed work PC (organization-wide upgrade to Windows 7  
Enterprise, norwegian locale(?) wrapped around english install(?)).

The discouraging part: I installed MiKTeX on C:\miktex29 (As per an  
idea in an earlier Ulrike Fischer-troubleshoot towards a different  
user).
I have administrator privileges for my local PC, but chose single  
user install. Towards complexity-reduction I also installed Basic  
Miktex, 32-bit. I ran latex on an old file: fine. I ran dvips: fine.  
ps2pdf: Trouble, but was expected, alas, as I never solved an old XP- 
Miktex2.7 conflict. Pdflatex was fine, as long as I didn't call  
pstricks. Some packages (geometry, and pst-node) were installed on- 
the fly.

I then logged off, and back on again things didn't work as expected  
anymore :(

*****begin minimal example********
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
Minimal

æøå
\end{document}
*******end minimal example********
NOTE: As I write this on a MacBook, I actually had to change  
characters in my example - the accented chars are supposed to be  
chars 27, 28, 29 of Norwegian alphabet.

What a back-to-back latex+dvips session wrote to my CMD session window:

*****begin output******
C:\Temp\2010test>latex minimal
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (MiKTeX 2.9)
entering extended mode
(C:\Temp\2010test\minimal.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans,  
ancientgreek, ar
abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian,  
catalan, coptic,
croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish,  
french, ga
lician, german, german-x-2009-06-19, greek, gujarati, hindi,  
hungarian, iceland
ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, lao,  
latin, lat
vian, lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc,  
monogreek, ngerm
an, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish,  
portuguese,
romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish,  
swedish, swis
sgerman, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian,  
uppersorbian, u
senglishmax, welsh, loaded.
(C:\miktex29\tex\latex\base\article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(C:\miktex29\tex\latex\base\size10.clo))
(C:\miktex29\tex\latex\base\inputenc.sty (C:\miktex29\tex\latex\base 
\latin1.def
)) (C:\miktex29\tex\latex\base\fontenc.sty
(C:\miktex29\tex\latex\base\t1enc.def)) (C:\Temp\2010test 
\minimal.aux) [1]
(C:\Temp\2010test\minimal.aux) )
Output written on minimal.dvi (1 page, 244 bytes).
Transcript written on minimal.log.

C:\Temp\2010test>dvips minimal
This is dvips(k) 5.99 Copyright 2010 Radical Eye Software  
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2011.07.12:1559' -> minimal.ps
Trying to make PK font ecrm1000 at 600 DPI...
Creating ecrm1000.pk...
Running miktex-mf.exe...
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (MiKTeX 2.9)

(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\ecrm1000.mf
(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exbase.mf)
(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\ecrm.mf
(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exroman.mf
  Ok (C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exaccess.mf
  Ok) (C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\expseudo.mf
  Ok) (C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exruwest.mf
  Ok [192] [193] [194] [195] [196] [197] [198] [199] [200] [201]  
[202] [203]
[204] [205] [206] [207] [208] [209] [210] [211] [212] [213] [214] [215]
[216] [217] [218] [219] [220] [221] [222] [223])
(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exrlwest.mf
  Ok [224] [225] [226] [227] [228] [229] [230] [231] [232] [233]  
[234] [235]
[236] [237] [238] [239] [240] [241] [242] [243] [244] [245] [246] [247]
[248] [249] [250] [251] [252] [253] [254] [255])
(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exrueast.mf
  Ok [128] [129] [130] [131] [132] [133] [134] [135] [136] [137]  
[138] [139]
[140] [141] [142] [143] [144] [145] [146] [147] [148] [149] [150] [151]
[152] [153] [154] [155] [156] [157])
(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exrleast.mf
  Ok [158] [160] [161] [162] [163] [164] [165] [166] [167] [168]  
[169] [170]
[171] [172] [173] [174] [175] [176] [177] [178] [179] [180] [181] [182]
[183] [184] [185] [186] [187] [188])
(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exbraces.mf
  Ok [94] [126] [23] [40] [41] [60] [124] [62] [91] [93] [92] [123]  
[125]
[95] [127] [32]) (C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\expunct.mf
  Ok [14] [15] [19] [20] [13] [18] [33] [39] [42] [43] [44] [46] [47]  
[58]
[59] [61] [96] [189] [17] [45] [16] [21] [22])
(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exaccent.mf
  Ok [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12])
(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exsign.mf
  Ok [24] [34] [35] [36] [37] [64] [191] [159])
(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exrlig.mf
  Ok [25] [26] [28] [27] [29] [30] [31])
(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exromp.mf
  Ok [38] [63] [190]) (C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exrulett.mf
  Ok [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77]  
[78]
[79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90])
(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exrllett.mf
  Ok [97] [98] [99] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104] [105] [106] [107]  
[108]
[109] [110] [111] [112] [113] [114] [115] [116] [117] [118] [119] [120]
[121] [122]) (C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exrdigit.mf
  Ok [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57])
(C:\miktex29\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exrligtb.mf
  Ok) ) ) )
(some charht values had to be adjusted by as much as 0.06586pt)
Font metrics written on ecrm1000.tfm.
Output written on ecrm1000.600gf (256 characters, 51184 bytes).
Transcript written on ecrm1000.log.
METAFONT failed for some reason
ignoring 0 strange path(s)
Running gftopk.exe...
This is GFtoPK, Version 2.3 (MiKTeX 2.9)
'METAFONT output 2011.07.12:1600'
51184 bytes packed to 23808 bytes.

<C:\Users\hans\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9\fonts\pk\ljfour\jknappen\ec 
\dpi600\ecrm1
000.pk>
<C:/miktex29/dvips/base/tex.pro>. [1]

C:\Temp\2010test>
*****end output********
The pdflatex run fails to produce a file.

btw, the reason I am on C/TEMP is because of paranoid debugging  
mindset. The 2010test folder is simply some Exam texts and Lecture  
notes from last year, that used to compile fine under XP SP3+MiKTeX  
2.8 (or 2.7).

Any help or suggestions welcome!

Best regards,
Hans Marius Eikseth
Den 15. jun. 2011 kl. 08.19 skrev HNG:

>  Dear all,
>
>  When I try dvi2pdf or pdftex command I get following error. It  
> seems to
>  be a font related issue, but I could not figure out. I would be  
> grateful
>  for your help.
>
>  Many thanks,
>  HNG
>
>
>  Trying to make PK font lbtr at 600 DPI...
>
>  Running miktex-makemf.exe...
>
>  miktex-makemf: No info available for lbtr. Running ttf2pk.exe...
>
>  miktex-makepk: PK font lbtr could not be created.
>
>  test.dvi -> test.pdf
>  [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] 
> [20][21][22
>  ** WARNING ** Could not locate a virtual/physical font for TFM
>  "hlcrt8r". ** WARNING ** >> This font is mapped to a physical font
>  "lbtr". ** WARNING ** >> Please check if kpathsea library can find  
> this
>  font: lbtr ** ERROR ** Cannot proceed without .vf or "physical"  
> font for
>  PDF output... Output file removed.
>
>  Process exited with error(s)
>
>
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