Bug 140665

Summary: (pdf)latex font for bold italic probably missing
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Dennis Lubert <plasmahh>
Component: OtherAssignee: Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
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Description Dennis Lubert 2005-12-21 21:55:08 UTC
Hello,

I tried to pdflatex the following code:
\documentclass[pdftex,10pt,a4paper]{scrreprt}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\begin{document}
\textit{\textbf{test text}}
\end{document}

but the result was not as expected. When removing the font setting to sfdefault, I get as expected a bold font with italics, but not with the sfdefault. Looking further at the output log I get:

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/it' in size <10> not available
(Font)              Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/sl' tried instead on input line 4.
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmss/bx/it' undefined
(Font)              using `OT1/cmss/bx/n' instead on input line 4.

which indicates a missing font. I looked at /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/cmextra and there seem to be some fonts which are not compiled into the /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cmextra directory as pfb files as it seems. It looks like cmssbxo10.pfb or similar is missing there. As a temporary workaround you could tell me how to properly create and integrate the .pfb file into the system. I have tried to play with mftrace and got some font that looks ok, but couldnt get it recognized properly by pdflatex.

greets

Dennis
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2006-01-09 11:10:34 UTC
This type of font developed for the old SliTeX (LaTeX for slides) does not
have any italic part.  If you want to use this non-standard font you may
install this at your own.
Comment 2 Dennis Lubert 2006-01-11 12:07:58 UTC
Well, its a bit inconsistent to have all but an italic+bold font of this. And what is then the recommended standard up-to-date way to get a font similar to \sfdefault ? I have tried palatino which looks ugly and fontenc T1 which isnt rendered correctly in xpdf...
Comment 3 Dr. Werner Fink 2006-01-11 12:18:24 UTC
Without having a cmssbxo10.pfb this problem is not solvable.
Maybe the following file does help you

     ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/language/inuktitut/oinuit/type1/cmssbxo10.pfb

if so you may provide me some feedback about this.