[texhax] Font installation

Henrik Frisk frisk.h at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 18:12:30 CEST 2013


Thanks for your replies. Yes, I've run mktexlsr. The map files are here:

$ kpsewhich frutiger.map
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/map/dvips/psnfss/frutiger.map
$ kpsewhich agaramond.map
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/map/dvips/psnfss/agaramond.map

Best,
/Henrik


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:

>  exactly where are those map files? Is it in the appropriate TDS
> structure?
>
> I usually do a
>
> kpsewhich file.map
>
> to verify that it is found before I run updmap-sys
>
>
>
>
>
>
> /Lars Madsen
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information:
> http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf
>
>      ------------------------------
> *From:* texhax [texhax-bounces at tug.org] on behalf of Henrik Frisk [
> frisk.h at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 14 August 2013 16:50
> *To:* texhax at tug.org Hax
>
> *Subject:* Re: [texhax] Font installation
>
>     Dear all,
>
>  I have not yet been able to resolve this issue. I'm trying to install two
> adobe fonts that I have used with TeX before (AGaramond and Frutiger). This
> time it is not working at all. I have put all the font files in my
> TEXMFLOCAL directory but I can't add the map files. The output of
> updmap-sys is:
>
> $ updmap-sys --enable Map=agaramond.map
> [sudo] password for henrikfr:
> updmap is using the following updmap.cfg files (in precedence order):
>   /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg
>   /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
>   /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg
> updmap is using the following updmap.cfg file for writing changes:
>   /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg unchanged.  Map
> files not recreated.
> updmap: Updating ls-R files.
>
>  As you can see the texmf-local directory is not included here which makes
> me think there is something wrong with the environment variables. This is
> what I have currently:
>
> $ kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFLOCAL
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/../texmf-local
> $ kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
> ]$ kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFVAR
> /home/henrikfr/.texlive2012/texmf-var
>
>  Any suggestions?
>
>  /Henrik
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Henrik Frisk <frisk.h at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >>
>> >> For the record, the very first release of TeX Live was based on teTeX
>> >> and thus supported Unix systems only.  The second release already
>> >> supported Windows too, providing the Windows binaries from fpTeX,
>> >> compiled by Fabrice.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Ulrike,
>> >> updmap is as old as teTeX.  The first version did not have the
>> >> --enable option and users had to edit the config file manually.
>> >> A later version introduced the --enable option, but this happened
>> >> more than a decade ago.  Unfortunately I currently don't have anything
>> >> older than TeX Live 2003 installed, but I can at least confirm that
>> >> the commands described above were supported ten years ago already.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Thanks Reinhard for that information.
>> >
>> > I have now upgraded to TeXlive2012 and tried to reinstall the files
>> > but with the same depressing result. Everything now lives in
>> > /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local. If it wasn't for the fact that I have
>> > used these fonts before I would think there is something not right
>> > with the files.
>> >
>> > However, I still think there's womething not right with the search
>> > path. Though kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFLOCAL gives me
>> > /usr/local/texlive/2012/../texmf-local running updmap-sys --enable
>> > Map=map does not list this file. mktexlsr does however. Any thoughts
>> > would be greatly appreciated!
>> >
>> > /H
>>
>>  Howdy,
>>
>> What is the path to the font.map file as reported by kpsewhich: i.e.,
>> what does
>>
>> kpsewhich font.map
>>
>> return?
>>
>> What are you using for `map' in
>>
>> updmap-sys --enable Map=map
>>
>> command? Who owns your TeX distribution? If it's owned by root you need
>> to use `sudo' before the command.
>>
>> Finally, did you ever run updmap rather than updmaap-sys? If so you have
>> a map file in your personal texmf-var (TEXMFVAR as opposed to TEXMFHOME)
>> which is overriding the system one.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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