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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: Re: problems w/ XDVI on FreeBSD
Message-ID: <kientzleDGnqJr.HC0@netcom.com>
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References: <460vtp$k8k@macro.stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 18:40:39 GMT
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In article <460vtp$k8k@macro.stanford.edu>,
Mystical White Wolf <fchang@macro.stanford.edu> wrote:
>Metafont failed for some reason on msam8.300gf
>xdvi: can't find font msam8; using cmr10 instead at 300 dpi.
>Checksum mismatch (dvi = 281919182, pk = 2133376900) in font
>file /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/pk/cmmi6.300pk
>Checksum mismatch (dvi = 3607172914, pk = 3713610756) in font
First, a brief explanation of what these messages actually mean.
When XDVI loads a DVI file, it needs to find or create the
necessary fonts. It uses the following process:
a) Try to load a PK version of the font
b) If that fails, run a program called MakeTeXPK
c) If that succeeds, try again to load the PK font
d) If it still fails, load some default font instead.
The checksum mismatches and missing characters are simply because XDVI
is loading the default font (cmr10) because it can't find or create
any of the others. The first line is the useful message: MakeTeXPK is
failing to run MetaFont to build the PK font.
The most likely cause of this type of error is that the wrong search
paths are set for XDVI and MetaFont, or maybe you don't have MetaFont
installed (program name `mf'). There are a couple of different
variations of these programs floating around, so I can't tell you
precisely what to check without knowing more. (I pulled the original
source from ftp.shsu.edu and compiled the whole system from scratch.
I'm not very familiar with the pre-built package.)
- Tim Kientzle