GSF2PK failed on postscript font

[mtreuden]

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I have a certain postscript font for which Yap won't generate PK fonts. The problem appears to be that the program miktex-makepk.exe passes the option --miktex-disable-maintenance to gsf2pk.exe, which always fails since that option is unknown to gsf2pk.exe. Taking a standard font that comes with MiKTeX, for instance, the command

gsf2pk.exe --miktex-disable-maintenance utmb8r NimbusRomNo9L-Medi "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" 8r.enc utmb8a.pfb 1000 utmb8r.pk

fails while

gsf2pk.exe utmb8r NimbusRomNo9L-Medi "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" 8r.enc utmb8a.pfb 1000 utmb8r.pk

produces the PK font file. So, in my case, one work-around is to use gsf2pk.exe to manually generate all the PK fonts one at a time. I would much prefer the PK fonts to be automatically generated, however.

Based on examining miktex-makepk.log, I wonder if there should be a miktex-gsf2pk.exe that miktex-makepk.exe calls which allows the --miktex-disable-maintenance option (similar to miktex-makemf, miktex-ttf2pk, and miktex-ps2pk.exe).

Remark: I realize that most people compile directly to PDF files, and my problem font does work when pdfLaTeX is used to obtain a PDF file, or when DVIPS is used to obtain a PS file from the DVI file. Nevertheless, if it is not too much trouble, I would appreciate it if the issue is fixed.

MiKTeX Report.txt

[edocevoli]

This has been fixed.