[cups.general] dvips: Font favr8r not found,characters will be left blank.

[Helge Blischke]

Stroller wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm sure this is dumb question, and that I should be able to find the  
> answer by searching harder, but I've had no luck so far and this is  
> driving me crazy. I previously (last night) had a DIFFERENT error  
> message which I cannot reproduce.
> 
> My distro is Gentoo; it offers only a handful of CTAN packages via  its 
> own package manager (Portage) but also allows the MiKTeX Tools  package 
> manager to be installed, so I have used this to install the  Arev font. 
> After adding its character map to updmap.cfg, then  installing the 
> Mathdesign & Bera fonts which it requires LaTeX  documents seem to 
> compile fine:
> 
>   $ rubber arev.tex
>   compiling arev.tex...
>   $
> 
> This .tex file is the "LaTeX source of PDF original from <http:// 
> www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/arev/index.html>, <http://www.tug.dk/ 
> FontCatalogue/arev/arev.tex> with only one modification:
>   %\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>   \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> 
> However dvipdf doesn't find this font:
>   $ dvipdf arev.dvi
>   dvips: Font favr8r not found, characters will be left blank.
>   dvips: Font favri8r not found, characters will be left blank.
>   dvips: Font favb8r not found, characters will be left blank.
>   dvips: Font favmb7t not found, characters will be left blank.
>   dvips: Font favmr7t not found, characters will be left blank.
>   dvips: Font favmri7m not found, characters will be left blank.
>   dvips: Font favmr7t not found, characters will be left blank.
>   $ locate favr8r favri8r favb8r favmb7t favmr7t favmri7m favmr7t
>   /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/arev/favr8r.tfm
>   /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/arev/favri8r.tfm
>   /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/arev/favb8r.tfm
>   /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/arev/favmb7t.tfm
>   /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/arev/favmr7t.tfm
>   /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/arev/favmri7m.tfm
>   /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/arev/favmr7t.tfm
>   $
> 
> So I try to cheat:
> 
>   $ kpsewhich --show-path .tfm
>   .:/home/stroller/texmf/fonts/tfm//:!!/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/ 
> tfm//:!!/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm//:/var/cache/fonts/tfm//
>   $ ls /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/
>   emerald  mathdesign  public
>   $ cd /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/
>   $ sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/arev/ .
>   Password:
>   $ ls
>   arev  emerald  mathdesign  public
>   $ ls *
>   arev:
>   ArevSans-Bold.tfm         favbi8r.tfm   favmri7m.tfm  zavmbi7m.tfm
>   ArevSans-BoldOblique.tfm  favbi8t.tfm   favr8r.tfm    zavmr7t.tfm
>   ArevSans-Oblique.tfm      favmb7t.tfm   favr8t.tfm    zavmr7y.tfm
>   ArevSans-Roman.tfm        favmbi7m.tfm  favri8r.tfm   zavmri7m.tfm
>   favb8r.tfm                favmr7t.tfm   favri8t.tfm
>   favb8t.tfm                favmr7y.tfm   zavmb7t.tfm
> 
>   emerald:
>   fapmd.tfm     fdcmd7te.tfm  fjdmw8c.tfm   fsbmi.tfm    fspmr8t.tfm
>   fapmd7t.tfm   fdcmd8r.tfm   fjdmw8r.tfm   fsbmi7t.tfm  fspmr8y.tfm
>   fapmd8r.tfm   fdcmd8rc.tfm  fjdmw8t.tfm   fsbmi8c.tfm  fsymp.tfm
>   fapmd8t.tfm   fdcmd8re.tfm  fjdmw8y.tfm   fsbmi8r.tfm  fsymp7t.tfm
>   ...
> 
> Obviously I've missed something obvious here, so I'd be grateful for  
> any pointers. I am afraid I am not finding paths to be a simple  matter 
> in production of LaTeX documents. What's annoying is that the  emerald 
> fonts were also installed using the MiKTeX package manager,  and that 
> works perfectly.
> 
> I am posting here because my version of dvipdf is the Ghostscript  version:
> 
>   $ equery belongs `which dvipdf`
>   [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dvipdf in *... ]
>   app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.3 (/usr/bin/dvipdf)
>   $ eix ghostscript-esp
>   * app-text/ghostscript-esp
>      Available versions:  7.07.1-r8 ~7.07.1-r10 8.15.1_p20060430  8.15.3 
> ~8.15.3-r1
>      Installed:           8.15.3
>      Homepage:            http://www.cups.org/espgs
>      Description:         ESP Ghostscript -- an enhanced version of  GPL 
> Ghostscript with better printer support
>   $
> 
> Thanks in advance for any comments.
> 
> Stroller.
> 

What springs to my eyes in your post is:
the locate command returns the path(s) to all the needed .tfm
(TeX font metrics) files but to none of either Type1 or Type3 fonts
needed to create PostScript and/or PDF.

Helge


-- 
Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung
SRZ Berlin | Firmengruppe besscom
http://www.srz.de