[OS X TeX] Getting fonts working.

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jul 18, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Michael Welsh wrote:

> On 19/07/2011, at 4:43 AM, Michael Sharpe wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm trying to install Comic Sans, using the package comicsans. I've put all the files into textmf-local, in the correct places. texdoc comicsans works fine.
>>> 
>>> However, LaTeX can't seem to find the ttf files (copied straight from whenever Apple puts them and chmodded to 777 to remove any potential permissions errors). 
>>> 
>>> The error I get is
>>> pdfTeX error: /usr/texbin/pdflatex (file comic.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading
>>> and the complete log file is at http://yomcat.geek.nz/LaTeX/comics.log
>>> 
>>> I've run updmap-sys --force --enable Map comicsans.map a few times, and still nothing.
>>> 
>>> oh, I'm running the TL-2011 pretest.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Truetype font maps should not be added to updmap.cfg, but should be used on the fly with
>> 
>> \pdfmapfile{+comicsans.map}
>> 
>> in your preamble. 
> I added that, got the same error.
>> 
>> Check the letter casing of the ttf. Because the search is in the system area, case matters---pdflatex is looking for comic.ttf.
> Yes, all lowercase.
>> 
>> Another possibility is that you have a personal updmap.cfg that hides the one created with sudo [-H] updmap-sys.
> How would I check that? This is pretty much a brand new computer, and this is the first font I've tried to install.
>> If all else fails, you could try 
>> 
>> http://math.ucsd.edu/~msharpe/TeXFontUtility.dmg
>> 
>> which, among other things, tries to analyze misbehaving font installations.
> Thanks. It said "at least one of the things in updmap is false, they should all be true" Apart from that, it seems to be all good.
> 
> Michael
> 

Howdy,

Sorry, been out of contact for a few days. Where did you put the map file(s) and where did you put the ttf font file(s)?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)