Re: Unable to use URW Garamond No. 8 Type 1 typeface

> Ralf Stubner said the following at 05/27/2006 05:59 AM :
> > Robin Fairbairns <[email protected]> writes:
> > 
> >> however, the fact that you get failures with ugmr8a seems to imply
> >> that you've not installed the .tfm/.vf files from ugm.zip, 
> > [...]
> > 
> > I wondered about that, too. However, ugmr8a does not work on my system
> > either, and I am sure that I have installed it correctly. It looks as if
> > ugmr8a is a nonvirtual/raw/physical font without an entry in the map
> > file. This can't work, and I am not sure why Walter included these TFM
> > files at all.
> > 
> 
> Actually, as I was thinking about this overnight, I decided that I don't
> understand why it's ever trying to build a bit-mapped font. Surely pdfTeX
> can simply use the .pfb file directly. I guess I simply don't understand
> how pdfTeX and type 1 fonts work at all, and I need to google around to
> find a good explanation.

it's trying to build a bitmap as a last resort.  it can't find a .pfb,
so it (vainly, as it proves) hopes there will be a bitmap font it can
use.

have you tried *8t fonts instead of *8a fonts, yet?

there are virtual fonts that translate those into .pfbs that do exist.