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 texmf tree (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>:

  .pfb,
  .pfa  .../fonts/type1/<foundry>/<fname>
  .tfm  .../fonts/tfm/<foundry>/<fname>
  .vf   .../fonts/vf/<foundry>/<fname>
  .sty,
  .fd   .../tex/latex/<fname>
  .map  .../fonts/map/dvips/<foundry>
  

  but if you are lucky, you will be starting from a distribution from CTAN and there is a corresponding .tds.zip file: using the 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 dvips, PDFTeX and other maps:
  • On any current TeX Live-based system, or a teTeX v3.0 system, execute the command

    updmap-sys --enable Map <fname>.map
    

    as root. (Do not use plain updmap: it’s a potent source of confusion, setting up different map sets for different users.)

  • 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.

fontinst.sty

fonts/utilities/fontinst (or browse the directory)

Type 1 installation guide

info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/fontinstallationguide.pdf

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