[comp.text.tex] Basic Help with Fonts in Local manual

aspgpas@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Peter Silva) (02/08/91)

Beginner Installation Problems...

OK... I've been building TeX for a while now.  I've got it to the point
where it builds just fine...  and seems to be correctly installed.  I'm
now trying to print the "local guide" to my handy PostScript Printer.

Source of my pains is as follows.  I do:

prtex -Pxxx -postscript -reset 4 local

(just like the file PRINTDOC file sort of says...)
and I get the following:

Usage: /home/cidsv01d/aspg/pas/bin/prtex dvifile
    or /home/cidsv01d/aspg/pas/bin/prtex [-Pprinter]      (must come first)
       [-noheader] [-letterhead] [-legal] [-ledger] [-landscape]
       [-postscript] [-impress] [-nospecial] [-reset number] [-quiet]
       [-manual] [-duplex] [-copies number] 
       filename (- for std input)
cidsv01% prtex -Pneclas  -postscript -reset 4 local
/home/cidsv01d/aspg/pas/lib/tex82/bin/dvi2ps, Version 3.13 of January 19, 1988
dvi file: "local.dvi"
Error try to load font "cmcsc10"
        Global magnification:      1000
        This font's magnification: 1439, a 10.00pt font used at 14.40pt.
        Can not find .pk, .pdr files for this font.
        Search path:
                /home/cidsv01d/aspg/pas/share/tex82/fonts
Error try to load font "cmcsc10"
        Global magnification:      1000
        This font's magnification: 1200, a 10.00pt font used at 12.00pt.
        Can not find .pk, .pdr files for this font.
        Search path:
                /home/cidsv01d/aspg/pas/share/tex82/fonts
Error try to load font "cmcsc10"
        Global magnification:      1000
        This font's magnification: 1727, a 10.00pt font used at 17.28pt.
        Can not find .pk, .pdr files for this font.
        Search path:
                /home/cidsv01d/aspg/pas/share/tex82/fonts
dvi2ps: fatal error
GetFontDefs(): Unresolvable fonts looking for .pk, .pdr files

So I check:
ls /home/cidsv01d/aspg/pas/share/tex82/fonts/cmc*

cmcsc10.300pk   cmcsc10.tfm

Is there something else I need to ftp ?
What do I have to do to get/build these fonts ?

I have never used TeX or MetaFont before.  I do not have either of their
books yet.  I think I have to get Metafont to build some pk files for me.
Could some kind soul descibe the method I would use ?




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