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From: edwin@dutlru2.tudelft.nl (Edwin Wisse/32768)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: MakeTeXPK problem?
Keywords: MakeTeXPK, METAFONT, aarg!
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.063709.22780@dutlru1.tudelft.nl>
Date: 18 Apr 91 06:37:09 GMT
References: <974@vax.cs.athabascau.ca>
Sender: Edwin Wisse (edwin@dutlru2.tudelft.nl)
Organization: Delft Univ. of Technology, Fac. of Aerospace Engineering
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In article <974@vax.cs.athabascau.ca> willis@cs.athabascau.ca (Tony Willis) writes:
>I recently obtained the dvips package (v5.4.7) and installed
>it on my system. The only thing I seem to be having problems with
>is the MakeTeXPK shell script. This is supposed to translate
>the fonts created by METAFONT to the right  .pk name.
>However something seems fundamentally wrong. 
>
>If metafont is fed the command 
>\mode:=imagen; mag:=magstep(0.5); scrollmode; input cmr7
>
>it coughs out the file cmr7.2850gf
>
You probably have not defined the imagen mode! When MetaFont doesn't find
the mode you specified it takes a standard value which does result in fonts
with those huge sizes. Define your printer mode in modes.mf.
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