fonts,installing,computer-modern – How to Invoke cm-super Fonts in LaTeX: Installation and Usage

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I have installed cm-super from the command line in Ubuntu.

I can see the .pfb files in usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/cm-super.

I am still not sure how to invoke them in LaTeX.

This page:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/INSTALL
indicates that I have to manually update updmap files? Really? Is it that complicated?

Do I need to make sure of the presence of anything other than the .pfb files?

Best Answer

If the cm-super fonts are correctly installed they will be used automatically as soon as you try to use the computer modern fonts with T1-encoding. There is no need to invoke them in a special way. Try this document:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
blub
\end{document}

Then check the log-file. With cm-super you should see that at the end a cm-super font is mentioned:

J:/MiKTeX2.9/fonts/type1/public/cm-super/sfrm1000.pfb

Without cm-super there would be a .pk at this place.

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