[OS X TeX] Fonts in TL2012

[Michael Welsh]

On 27/07/2012, at 12:43 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2012, at 6:27 PM, Michael Welsh wrote:
> 
>> On 27/07/2012, at 10:54 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE> wrote:
>>> Am 27.07.2012 um 00:33 schrieb Michael Welsh:
>>> 
>>>> yomcat:web2c yomcat$ locate rcomic8r
>>>> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/tfm/microsoft/comicsans/rcomic8r.tfm
>>> 
>>> Michael,
>>> 
>>> as I already mentioned: this file plays no role. At least yet. It was already found.
>>> 
>>> Other fonts where also found: /usr/local/texlive/2012/../texmf-local/fonts/truetype/microsoft/comicsans/comic.ttf for example. Why is a PostScript Type 1 font file also needed? Can you locate this one? I presume: no! Because your locate command looks for file names containing the string "rcomic8r". So locate should list rcomic8r.tfm, rcomic8r.pfb, maybe more. Your error can also be that the PostScript Type 1 font file is rcomic8a.pfb… The "raw" PostScript Type 1 fonts are usually in the Adobe standard encoding, 8a.
>> 
>> 
>> I ran that locate command because the error I get now (I made a cfg file with ``Map comicsans.map'' in it, and ran the sudo -H commands in Herb's doc) is :
>> !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file rcomic8r.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for reading
>> 
>> So, this looks like pdflatex is looking for rcomic8r.pfb, which doesn't exist, hence it can't open it, and it fails.
>> 
>> I just figured it out -- it's because I don't have italic versions of comicsans and I was using a textit{} command. Remove it, and everything magically works.
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Hmmm... I thought you said it all compiled fine with TL2011, or whatever else you had?
The font worked, but this is a new file. I can't remember if I used italics in the past or not.
> 
> Is there a comicsans.sty file? If so, what is its contents?
http://yomcat.geek.nz/latex/comicsans.sty

> since the font is a ttf, which means you need to use pdflatex, I wonder if installing a map file was not needed and the loading of the map file is done by the package.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)