[Tex/LaTex] Font installation woes – TeXShop on a Mac

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Have read (carefully, I hope) the earlier question Font installation in TeXShop on a Mac looked to be exactly what I needed. Also looked at http://www.tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html#fndb

Am trying to install Arial from CTAN.

However, the sudo commands getnonfreefonts, texhash and updmap did not seem to be available on my system. So I have downloaded and installed MacTeX 2012 (previously had 2010), which enabled texhash and updmap, but not getnonfreefonts, and tried again.

The unzipped files went into /usr/local/texlive/2012/../texmf-local/arial which I think is right.

sudo texhash made all the right noises, as in the answer to the earlier question referred to above.

sudo updmap-sys --enable Map=ua1.map produced a limited response. I had made earlier attempts, sometimes with the wrong map name. The font is not 'working'. testfont confirms this, saying that ua1b8a (one of the .tfm files) cannot be found.

I have clearly 'screwed up' my system somewhere along the line, unless I have misunderstood something. What do I do now? Remove all traces of TeX… from my computer and start again? Or…

Sorry to be so dumb.

Best Answer

Don't be dramatic! ;-) If the distribution didn't install getnonfreefonts you can install it yourself and it will do his magic in a few steps.

Download getnonfreefonts

Get the program at http://www.tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/ and follow the very simple instructions on the very page I pointed. Assuming you installed the Tex Live distro system-wide, you may want to modify the commands in

sudo env PATH=$PATH texlua install-getnonfreefonts

assuming also that your PATH points to the Tex Live binaries (which should be).

Install arial-urw

You should be fine with

sudo getnonfreefonts arial-urw

and voila! Font installed. :-)

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] How to install uarial.sty on a mac

The font can be easily installed via the script getnonfreefonts. It is available at tug.org:

TUG getnonfreefonts

EDIT: I tried the installation of getnonfreefonts on my Mac. In the follwoing explaniation I will try to explain my steps. First I have the following machine:

iMac 27"
Installed updated MacTeX 2011

Now the steps.

I downloaded the installation script.
Open the terminal and go to the folder Download

cd Download
Run the installation:

sudo texlua install-getnonfreefonts
The installation finished and the scipts with their execute files getnonefreefonts and getnonfreefonts-sys are now located at

/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-darwin/
Now you can run the script

sudo getnonfreefonts-sys -a

[Tex/LaTex] Font installation in TeXShop on a Mac

It is generally better to install fonts in your system-wide texmf-local folder rather than your personal texmf folder. In fact, TeXLive now has a simple script installed for installing the non-free fonts such as classico.

The really simple way

Open a Terminal window and type the following: (you should be logged in to an account with administrator privileges.)

sudo getnonfreefonts-sys classico

And you are done!

To use the font, add

\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{uop}

to your document preamble to make Classico the sans serif default.

What the script is doing (the slightly more complicated way)

Effectively the script is simply downloading the font from CTAN and executing 3 commands. Here's a step by step version of what it does, which you can also do if you prefer. I also leave it in for fonts that are not installed by the script. I will begin from the assumption that you have downloaded the uop.zip file and it is in ~/Downloads.

Open a Terminal window and type the following:

sudo unzip ~/Downloads/uop.zip -d /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

You will be asked for your password.

This should return the a whole bunch of lines reporting the unzipped files:

Archive:  uop.zip
  inflating: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/doc/fonts/urw/Public.htm  
  inflating: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/doc/fonts/urw/classico.txt  
   creating: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/type1/urw/optima/
  inflating: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/type1/urw/optima/uopb8a.pfb  
  inflating: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/type1/urw/optima/uopbi8a.pfb

  ... (lines deleted)   

   creating: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/uop/
  inflating: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/uop/8ruop.fd  
  inflating: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/uop/ot1uop.fd  
  inflating: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/uop/t1uop.fd  
  inflating: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/uop/ts1uop.fd

Next enter

sudo texhash

this will rebuild the file list database to reflect the added files. This command should return:

texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2011/../texmf-local/ls-R... 
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf/ls-R... 
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-config/ls-R... 
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/ls-R... 
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-var/ls-R... 
texhash: Done.