[OS X TeX] Re: .map file not found?

[Nestor E. Aguilera]

On 12 Apr 2012, at 11:33, Murray Eisenberg wrote:

> [...]
> 
> I don't think putting new fonts and support inside ~/Library/texmf is a 
> problem, per discussions at MacOSX-TeX list.
> 
> I've resolved the problem with the .map files not being found: I have in 
> ~/Library/texmf/web2c a file updmap.cfg. As soon as I added to it the 
> entries...
> 
>  Map wolfram.map #localtexmf/dvips/config/wolfram.map
> Map pdfwolfram.map #localtexmf/pdftex/config/pdfwolfram.map
> 
> ... now running sudo updmap-sys runs normally and finds the
> newly-added .map files.

An alternative with pdf(la)tex compilation is to use the line

\pdfmapfile{+pdfwolfram.map}

in the preamble (and don't mess with updmap at all).

Hope it helps.

Nestor