I thought simply including \usepackage{verdana}
would be enough to use Verdana, but it seems like there is a problem:
I have a lot of fonts installed, as tlmgr list --only-installed | grep -i font
shows.
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and I think I have texlive-full 2017 installed.
$ sudo tlmgr --version
tlmgr revision 45190 (2017-09-01 10:01:01 +0200)
tlmgr using installation: /usr/local/texlive/2017
TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2017
Verdana is installed on my system (sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
):
$ locate -r "\\.ttf$" | grep -i verdana
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Verdana.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Verdana_Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Verdana_Bold_Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Verdana_Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/verdana.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/verdanab.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/verdanai.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/verdanaz.ttf
Install winfonts
I've seen http://tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html and did the follwoing:
1. Download winfonts.zip from
https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/winfonts?lang=de
2. Extract the contents to
$ sudo cp -r doc/ /usr/share/texmf/doc
$ sudo cp -r fonts/ /usr/share/texmf/fonts
$ sudo cp -r tex/ /usr/share/texmf/tex
3.
$ sudo texhash
4.
$ cd winfonts/fonts/map/pdftex/winfonts
$ sudo updmap-sys --enable MixedMap winfonts.map
Install verdana
The same steps for the verdana package:
1. Download the zip file from
https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/verdana?lang=de
2. Copy the contents:
verdana.tds$ sudo cp -avr * /usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/
3.
$ sudo texhash
3.5
$ mktexlsr
4.
$ cd /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/ms/verdana
$ sudo updmap-sys --enable MixedMap verdana.map
MWE 1
\documentclass[a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{verdana}
\begin{document}
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tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At
vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd
gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum
dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor
invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero
eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no
sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
\end{document}
gives
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file vnamn8t): Font vnamn8t at 600 not found
==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
MWE 2
This runs just fine, but the result is not Verdana.
\documentclass[a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\fontfamily{verdana}\selectfont
\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod
tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At
vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd
gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum
dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor
invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero
eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no
sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
\end{document}
Changing it to
\fontfamily{vna}\selectfont
doesn't change anything either. The text still has serifes and thus is not Verdana.
Best Answer
I was able to produce
verdana.sty
(along witht1vna.fd
,t1vnax.fd
andverdana.map
which are also not in the verdana.zip file) by runningThis ran docstrip on
verdana.dtx
. Then I followed the instructions at http://tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html carefully, and finally got things working on Ubuntu 14.04 with texlive. Runningtex testfont
and entering "vnamn8t" for tfmname let me see that most of the characters in the table were there.