[OS X TeX] Where to install local fonts?

[Herbert Schulz]

On May 23, 2008, at 7:45 AM, Jacques André wrote:

> In his Font installation guide, Lehman suggests to install fonts  by  
> using, for example,
>
> cp *.afm /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/sabon/
>
> According to the structure done by Texlive 2007, shoud I write
>
> cp *.afm /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/sabon/
>
> ??
> --
> Jacques ANDRÉ


Howdy,

If you want the font available for all users place the files in

/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/...

and don't forget to run

sudo texhash

also. You'll need to update the map files using

sudo updmap-sys -enable Map yourmapfile.map

too.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)