[OS X TeX] Font Installation MacTeX-2012

[Herbert Schulz]

On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:15 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> 
> On Aug 8, 2012, at 8:41 AM, ThomasSchl wrote:
> 
>> I saw there are some people having trouble installing individual fonts into
>> the texlive package. I have similar problems but none of the previous posts
>> by H. Schulz (or his guide "TeXLive2012Changes") helped me.
>> 
>> My situation is the following:
>> - I am using pdflatex
>> - I want to use the  http://scripts.sil.org/gentium gentium fonts 
>> - I have converted the TTF versions of these fonts using 
>> http://http://www.dalug.org/fileadmin/veranstaltungen/Slides/truetype.pdf
>> the guide by K. Höppner  some five years ago
>> - I used the converted gentium fonts successfully with MacTeX-2009 to
>> MacTeX-2011
>> 
>> After installing MacTeX-2012 the fonts (which were were installed
>> system-wide in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local) ceased to work with a similar
>> error as given by other users:
>> 
>> --
>> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+264/600 --dpi 864
>> fgbr8r
>> mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for fgbr8r.
>> mktexpk: perhaps fgbr8r is missing from the map file.
>> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
>> )
>> !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file fgbr8r): Font fgbr8r at 864 not found
>> ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>> --
>> 
>> After I read the TeXLive2012Changes PDF by H. Schulz, I carefully checked
>> all the parameters he mentioned, but---somehow---the new system refused to
>> detect my font. I decided to completely remove all TeXLive files (rests of
>> 2011 and 2012) and to start anew:
>> 
>> - I installed the complete MacTeX-2012 from scratch
>> - I called tlmgr update --self, then tlmgr update --all
>> - I copied my font step-by-step into /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local as
>> follows:
>>  cp *.fd ../texmf-local/tex/latex/gentium
>>  cp *.tfm ../texmf-local/fonts/tfm/public/gentium
>>  cp *.vf ../texmf-local/fonts/vf/public/gentium
>>  cp *.pfb ../texmf-local/fonts/type1/public/gentium
>>  cp gentium.map ../texlive/texmf-local/fonts/map
>> (This last step differs from the original guide by K. Höppner because of
>> some hint (by, was it updmap?) in MacTeX-2010 or MacTeX-2011)
>> - I created a new file updmap.cfg in ../texmf-local/web2c with the line "Map
>> gentium.map" plus an additional blank line
>> - I called
>> sudo -H mktexlsr
>> - I called
>> sudo -H updmap-sys
>> 
>> After that, I tried to set one of my old documents that uses the font, but
>> the error message stays exactly the same. I then called
>> sudo -H updmap --enable Map gentium.map
>> but nothing changes. I also tried
>> sudo -H updmap --syncwithtrees
>> but, again, the error persists.
>> 
>> Do you guys have any idea on how to proceed from here? I can't see the
>> 'error' I made. Do you think my old conversion of the gentium TTF font is a
>> potential cause for this problem? Again: the conversion has functioned as
>> desired up to MacTeX-2011.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Regards
>> Thomas S.
> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> First, the last things you did will lead to major problems in the end. You should NEVER us `sudo` when running `updmap`. Please remove ~/Library/texlive which is probably owned by root.
> 
> Can you give me a minimal but compilable sample file that uses the gentium font so I can do some testing here? Is there some sort of .sty file you are using to load the gentium file? If so please give that too.
> 

Howdy,

In the sentence about using `sudo` with `updmap`, for completeness I should have added that you MUST use `sudo -H` when using `updmap-sys`.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)