[texhax] Installation of fonts

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2012-06-22 at 14:42:40 +0200, Ulrich Grün wrote:

 > Dear List,
 > 
 > I want to install a new font (Adobe Garamond).  In the past, I
 > succeeded with the installation. But, somehow, in recent LaTeX and
 > postscript versions, things have changed significantly. The 'old'
 > installation guide doesn't work any more (I cannot find certain
 > configuration files).

Nothing had been changed for years.  I suppose that you simply missed
one step.  LaTeX is stable since 1994 and PostScript/Type1 even longer.
 
 > Has somebody a recent installation manual (step by step)?

Uncompress pad.zip from http://home.vr-web.de/was/fonts in TEXMFLOCAL.
You can expand this variables with

  kpsewhich --var-value=TEXMFLOCAL

on the command line.

Delete $TEXMFLOCAL/dvips/config/pad* because otherwise updmap will
probably complain about font maps in this directory and abort.

Install your .pfb files in $TEXMFLOCAL/fonts/type1/adobe/garamond and
rename them according to $TEXMFLOCAL/fonts/map/dvips/pad*.map .

Run 

  texhash
  updmap-sys --enable Map=pad.map

You should then be able to use the fonts, assumed that I didn't forgot
something myself.

If you don't succeed, try to provide more information.  We have to
know *what* doesn't work.  The least we need is the error message.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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