Does anyone use dvipdfmx to export Hebrew files?

[Udicoudco]

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 10:12 PM Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org> wrote:
>
> I used to be able to export our Hebrew documents to PDF using dvipdfmx. This doesn't work for me anymore, and I'm wondering if it is worth the effort to try to fix it on my system, or whether I should just drop these tests (in favor of the XeTeX and LuaTeX tests).
>
> Does the export work for anyone? To check, you first need to uncheck "use system fonts" in document settings.

Works for me. Both on texlive and miktex.

> If it does work, does anyone know whether this converter chain is used in practice these days?

I personally have old files using this converter chain. I've also noticed
that most new lyx users aren't aware that it is much better yp use
XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX with Hebrew, so they use it.

 Also, In some rare cases there times when I'm forced to work
with pdfTeX.

> Here is my terminal output with the error:
>
> dvipdfmx:warning: Could not locate a virtual/physical font for TFM "david".
> dvipdfmx:warning: This font is mapped to a physical font "DavidCLM-Medium.pfa".
> dvipdfmx:fatal: Sorry, pfa format not supported; please convert the font to pfb, e.g., with t1binary.

Note that none of the Hebrew fonts (David CLM in particular) are
shipped with TeXLive.
You can install them from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ivritex/files/culmus-latex/culmus-latex-0.7/

To install, Use the MAKE file, ot copy the two directories from the
.tar.gz file called tex and fonts, from use/share/texmf/
to a local texmf tree.

If you copied the directories manually, run updmap --enable
Map=culmus.map (or updmap -sys --enable Map=culmus.map) afterwards.

Regards,
Udi

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