Re: Re: IMPORTANT: (possibly) incompatible Change

[Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net>]

On 4/10/2010 1:01 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>
> On Apr 10, 2010, at 7:30 AM, Mark Elston wrote:
>
>>
>> I am having problems with microtype, here. I don't know if it is
>> happening in all my docs or just the ones I am working with now but
>> pdf generation fails with the following in the log:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ...
>> (Handouts07.out) (Handouts07.out)
>> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\wasysym\uwasy.fd")
>> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\ulasy.fd")
>> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\amsfonts\umsa.fd")
>> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\microtype\mt-msa.cfg")
>> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\amsfonts\umsb.fd")
>> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\microtype\mt-msb.cfg")
>> [1{C:/Prog
>> ramData/MiKTeX/2.7/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}
>> ! pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with
>> scalable
>> fonts.
>> \AtBegShi@Output ...ipout \box \AtBeginShipoutBox
>> \fi \fi
>> l.111 S
>> harezer = Babylonian name, sharusur, ``protect the king.''
>> ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>> Transcript written on Handouts07.log.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> If I comment out the \usepackage{microtype} line then everything works
>> fine. I am a casual user of latex so I don't really know what the
>> comment above about scalable fonts is getting at. Perhaps I can set
>> my docs up to do something different in terms of fonts to make this
>> just work.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Mark
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Removing microtype is probably the easiest solution. It performs some
> sophisticated micro-typographic adjustments that are typically found in
> published material. The LaTeX world got on fine without them for years
> and the casual LaTeX user can still do so. AFAIK, it is not necessary
> for the Org-mode LaTeX exporter.
>
> All the best,
> Tom
>

Tom,

I did just that and haven't seen any noticeable degradation in quality.
Thanks.

Mark