[lucida] Cannot find lbc.pfb on new Mac OS X Installation

Karun Dambiec kdambiec at ieee.org
Thu Oct 22 12:38:41 CEST 2009


On 20/10/2009, at 5:38 PM, Axel E. Retif wrote:

> On  20 Oct, 2009, at 00:51, Karun Dambiec wrote:
>
>> On 20/10/2009, at 4:30 PM, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>>
>>> On  19 Oct, 2009, at 15:51, Karun Dambiec wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I am trying to install the lucida fonts on Texlive/MacTex 2008 on  
>>>> Mac OS X.
>>>> I have gone through the installation instructions provided  
>>>> however keep receiving the following message.
>>>>
>>>> !pdfTeX error: /usr/texbin/pdflatex (file lbc.pfb): cannot open  
>>>> Type 1 font fil
>>>> e for reading
>>>
>>> lbc.pfb is Lucida Calligraphy Italic, which is part of the  
>>> Complete Font Set. Did you buy Lucida's complete font set?
>>>
>>> [...] how did you use updmap to enable lucida.map?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Axel
>>
>> Hello,
>> I bought the basic set and am trying to test it through processing  
>> of lucida-sample.tex that is in docs/lucidabr.
>
> I guess you can't run lucida-sample successfully because it calls  
> fonts not included in the basic set. Try the other sample document:  
> lucida-amsmath.tex.

That appears to be the case. Perhaps the basic set could include  
lucida-sample with only supported fonts.
>
>> I used updmap to enable lucida map.
>
> Yes, but I mean *how*:
>
> sudo updmap-sys --enable Map=lucida.map
>
> or
>
> updmap --enable Map=lucida.map

It is now all working.

Regards,

Karun



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