Re: MiKTeX 2.9 and Windows 7: strange font problem

Am Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:31:12 +0200 (MEST) schrieb Hans Marius
Eikseth:

> Well, today is yesterday's tomorrow, so I have uploaded a zipped folder (minimalbeispiel.zip) accessible on the following link:
> https://files.me.com/hans.marius.eikseth/opuozt

>>From my previous post, the YAP/MiKTeX error report contains these paths:
> 
> Root0: \\ans-fil-rv-1\home-rv$\hans\System\Programdata\MiKTeX\2.9
> Root1: C:\Users\hans\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
> Root2: C:\miktex29
> Root3: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
> Root4: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
> UserInstall: C:\miktex29
> UserConfig: \\ans-fil-rv-1\home-rv$\hans\System\Programdata\MiKTeX\2.9
> UserData: C:\Users\hans\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9
> CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
> CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
> CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9
 
> I myself never changed anything else than asking the basic MiKTeX
> installer to install into C:\miktex29 , which is Root2 above (and
> chosing 'yes' to installing packages on the fly). Is the location
> of Root 4 (same path as CommonInstall) then a bug or a feature of
> my environment? 

That's normal. Some of the roots have special names/functions.
Miktex simply list at first all roots and then the named ones again.
So Root0=UserConfig. It is also normal that some roots are mentioned
which are actually not used/or even don't exist, I see them too. 

Now to your problem. 

Your pdflatex log shows the source of the problem:
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map
file. 

First some background: In a normal windows there exist two types
user "profiles": the roaming profile and the local profile. In a
network the roaming profile is normally backup on the server when
you log out and if you log in on another pc it is copied down. The
local profile is always only on one pc and it is quite possible that
it is deleted when you log out - and at my opinion that is happening
here. 

The UserData root in the local user profile (here
C:\Users\hans\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9). UserData contains generated
files like the filename databases (FNDB), pk-files from fonts and
also the missing pdftex.map. 

pdflatex will recreate missing fndb-files on-the-fly (do you see a
noticable delay at the start of the compilation) but it will not
call updmap if the map is missing and so fonts are not found. 

Do the following: Call on the command line 
  initexmf -u
and
  updmap

Then try your minimal example again. If it works: Check the content
of the UserData-root, then log out and log in and check.





-- 
Ulrike Fischer 


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