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In article <1992Sep9.051254.18455@cs.cornell.edu>, cwong@cs.cornell.edu (Christopher Yoong-Meng Wong) writes:
> I downloaded Sbtex 3.0 (PC version of Tex) from vax.eedsp.gatech.edu
> recently, but had no luck getting it to work right. Everything 

There are newer versions of sbTeX--try simtel20.army.mil in pd1:<msdos.tex>.


> seemed fine until I tried to print with the dvieps (Epson) driver.
> Numerous errors of the type:
> 
>  Font file [cmbx10 [mag 1440]] could not be opened.
>  --- using nearest neighbor [c:\tex\fonts\300\cmbx10.pk [mag 1500]] instead.
> 

The "sb" products include sbTeX and sbmf. dvieps is not part of sbTeX, right?
Apparently, dvieps is trying to create output for a 9-pin epson FX-85 type 
printer. This printer has 240 dots per inch (actually, 240x216). So, 
dvieps wants fonts in diretories 240, 263, 288, etc., corresponding to 
\magstep 0, \magstephalf, \magstep 1, etc.  The "1440" is the older naming
scheme--divide by 5 and get 288.  It appears from the error message that
you do not have the correct fonts loaded for this printer (you have the
usual fonts for a 300dpi laser printer). 

Either get sbmf (metafont is not for beginners--look for the mf-help file
recently posted to this newsgroup).  Some folks will probably tell you to
get emTeX (another very nice TeX for OS/2 and MSDOS).  sbTeX is a good 
choice also, but emTeX is more complete. Its drivers can scale your 300 dpi
fonts, but the ouput on an FX-85 will be quite poor compared with the output
using 240x216 dpi fonts.  Finally, if you love to download pk files (several
megs), you can find 240dpi fonts (the emTeX dist at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu has some
if I recall correctly, and e-math.ams.com has AMSFonts in 240x216).

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu

> kept popping up. Can anyone give me a clue? My first experience with 
> Latex/Tex has not been too encouraging so far. 
> 
> Thank you for your patience.
> 
> Chris  
> 
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