Installing a Type 1 font#
Once you have a prepared Type 1 font, either direct from CTAN or the like, or having « prepared » it yourself, you can get on with installation.
The procedure is merely an extension of that for packages, etc., so much of what follows will be familiar :
Install the files, in your local
texmftree (the advice about installing non-standard things applies here, too). The following list gives reasonable destinations for the various files related to a font family⟨fname⟩:
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but if you are lucky, you will be starting from a distribution from CTAN and there is a corresponding tds.zip file : using this TDS-file saves the bother of deciding where to put your files in the TDS tree.
Regenerate the file indexes (as described in package installation) :
Update the maps for
dvips, pdfTeX and others :
On any current TeX Live-based system, or a teTeX v3.0 system, execute the command
updmap-sys --enable Map ⟨fname⟩.map
as root. (If you can use updmap-sys — do; if not — presumably because your (La)TeX system was set up by someone else — you have to fall back on plain updmap, but be aware that it’s a potent source of confusion, setting up map sets that might be changed behind your back.)
On a current MiKTeX system, update the system file updmap.cfg, using the shell command
initexmf --edit-config-file updmap
adding a line at the end :
Map ⟨fname⟩.map
for each font family ⟨fname⟩ you are adding to the system. Now generate revised maps with the shell command
initexmf --mkmaps
This, and other matters, are described in MiKTeX “advanced” documentation.
Both processes (preparing and installing a font) are very well (and thoroughly) described in Philipp Lehman’s guide to font installation.
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