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Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 8000 |
errors |
/FAQ-8000 |
You're running dvips, and you encounter a stream of error
messages, starting with Mismatched mode. The mode is the
default used in your installation — it's set in the dvips
configuration file, and ljfour is commonest (since it's the
default in most distributions), but not invariable.
The problem is that dvips has encountered a font for which
it must generate a bitmap (since it can't find it in Type 1 format),
and there is no proforma available to provide instructions to give to
MetaFont.
So what to do? The number 8000 comes from the -Ppdf option
to dvips, which you might have found from the answer
"wrong type of fonts". The obvious
solution is to switch to the trivial substitute -Pwww,
which selects the necessary type 1 fonts for PDF generation,
but nothing else: however, this will leave you with undesirable bitmap
fonts in your PDF file. The "proper" solution is to find a
way of expressing what you want to do, using type 1 fonts.