[23898] in Athena Bugs
pdflatex needs fonts from outland locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Wed Sep 3 13:29:02 2003
Message-Id: <200309031729.h83HT1Rj001742@red-herring.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
cc: jasmina@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:29:01 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
Jasmina called the SIPB office, with problems running pdflatex on the
dialups, since the 9.2 update. The document doesn't use any fancy fonts;
the header is:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{doublespace}
\usepackage{fullpage}
After a lot of fumbling, I figured out that I had some of the TEX*
environment variables set in my account that made it work. Setting TEXPKS
to include this outland directory seems to be sufficient to get things
working:
setenv TEXPKS "::.:/afs/sipb/project/outland/lib/tex/fonts/pk:"
Jasmina: if you want to put the above line in your .environment file,
I think it should make pdflatex work for you (after the next time you
login); this isn't a permenant solution, and hopefully you'll hear back
from someone else about when this gets fixed for real.
-Camilla
