Re: question on truetype font installation on teTeX-3.0

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 20:32:54 +0200 (EET), Tasos Drosopoulos
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,

Hi there,

> I have been trying out teTeX-3.0 on a custom made Linux system (Linux From
> Scratch with gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4, binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2) built with
> options:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/share/TeX --disable-multiplatform \
> --without-texinfo --with-system-ncurses --with-system-pnglib \
> --with-system-zlib.
> 
> The system builds nicely with no errors. However, in my job I have to write
> notes and articles in greek, with good looking pdf output. The default
> teTeX (both 3.0 and 2.0.2) gives blocky and jagged looking output. With
> teTeX 2.0.2 I use the cbgreek tfm and pfb fonts available on CTAN (a ~70MB
> package). My setup, on 2.0.2, for greek support, is:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1. install iso-8859-7.def -> ../texmf/tex/latex/base/
> 
> 2. expand somewhere the cb.tar.gz fonts tarball and from it:
>     a) copy drivers/*.mf       ->  ../texmf/fonts/source/public/cbgreek/
>     b) copy dvips/cbgreek.map  ->  ../texmf/dvips/config/

In my tetex 3.0 system, all MAP files are in $TEXMF/fonts/map/...

>     c) copy mf/*.mf            ->  ../texmf/fonts/source/public/cbgreek/
>     d) copy tfm/*.tfm          ->  ../texmf/fonts/tfm/public/cbgreek/
>     e) copy type1/*.pfb        ->  ../texmf/fonts/type1/public/cbgreek/
> 
> 3. add the following line to the appropriate place in the
>        ../texmf/dvips/config/config.ps file
> 
>     p +cbgreek.map
> 
> 4. add the following line to the appropriate place in the
>        ../texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg file
> 
>     map +cbgreek.map
> 
> 5. also in ../texmf/dvipdfm/config/config add
> 
>     f cbgreek.map
> 
> 6. texhash
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This worked nicely with very good output. With teTeX-3.0 I see that the
> iso-8859-7.def file exists. However I could not find pdftex.cfg or
> dvipdfm/config/config and the config.ps of dvips is at
> ../texmf-dist/dvips/config/config.ps. I spent several hours trying out
> various ways to move the fonts and change configuration files with no success.
> The problem I have is how/where to include in teTeX my map files and have
> it understand where to find the fonts. I would greatly appreciate it if
> someone would give me some advice on which direction to look.

Try add you map file into $TEXMF/web2c/updmap.cfg:

.............
Map cbgreek.map
..............

and run "updmap".

HTH,
Q.