> 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.
