[OS X TeX] Trying to upgrade to MacTex 2012 : Font errors

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Tue May 28 15:00:43 EDT 2013


On May 28, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE> wrote:

> 
> Am 28.05.2013 um 13:55 schrieb Eric van der Oord:
> 
>> Looks as if the font and map files located in my personal library were not seen.
> 
> Where are these? Where are the MAP files? Does kpsewhich find all these files? Do you see pdftex.map listed in pdftex's LOG file?
> 
>> 
>> Is that a know issue ?
> 
> Not known to me.
>> 
>> Have I to do some updmap ? Which one ?
> 
> You certainly have to! In TeX Live 2007 I had my config file in
> 
> 	~/.texlive2007/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg
> 
> and the resulting MAP files were found for example in
> 
> 	~/.texlive2007/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map
> 
> As you can see, they were only valid for TeX Live 2007 and I had to "port" them to TeX Live 2008 and later to TL '09.
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>  Pete


Howdy,

I believe this has already been solved by downloading `TeXLive2012Changes.pdf.zip' from <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10932738/index.html> and reading the section on installing fonts. Particularly the information about installing fonts in the personal tree.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)






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