Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ problem using PostScript fonts

[ravindasenarath]

Hi,

I'm a beginner to latex. I'm using PostScript fonts in my latex code as follows.

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\usepackage{times,mathptmx,courier}
\usepackage[scaled=.92]{helvet}
\usepackage{pifont}
 
 
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when compiling it produce error as follows.

kpathsea: Running

mktextfm

ptmr7t

mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr7t

This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)

kpathsea: Running

mktexmf

ptmr7t

! I can't find file `ptmr7t'. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr7t Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr7t Transcript written on mfput.log.

grep: ptmr7t.log: No such file or directory

mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr7t' failed to make ptmr7t.tfm.

kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

how can I eliminate this problem and use PostScript fonts successfully with latex?

Thank you

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

Install the times package, because ptmr7t belongs to it.

Stefan

[localghost]

The times package is obsolete. Just drop it. You've got Times support by the mathptmx package. Another alternative is to use the txfonts package.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Sometimes I don't remember, which is the obsolete one of times and txfonts.

Stefan

[ravindasenarath]

Thanks for the information but I'm still struggling. The package mathptmx and others were given depending with a distribution(MiKTeX and Tex Live). I'm using Texmaker on Ubuntu 10.04. So ??

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Remove the times package from your document preamble.

If you still need the ptmr7t font, install the Ubuntu package texlive-fonts-recommended.

Stefan

[ravindasenarath]

Got it solved.

Installing texlive-fonts-recommended from a separate package didn't work. Finally install one that was in the ubuntu software channel work for me.

Thanks Stefan_K and localghost