[Tex/LaTex] installing comicsans to TeX Live, Windows

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I need help to install the comicsans package and the fonts. My system is TeX Live 2011, and Windows 7. Below is what I did:

  1. Copied comic.ttf and comicbd.ttf in
    C:\texlive\texmf-local\fonts\ttf. (I created the ttf directory.)

  2. Copied dvips, tfm, and vf directories from the comicsans.zip to C:\texlive\texmf-local\fonts.

  3. Ran mktexlsr to update the file name database.

  4. Copied comicsans.dtx and comicsans.ins in C:\texlive\texmf-local\tex\latex\comicsans. (I created the comicsans directory.)

  5. Ran tex comicsans.ins in C:\texlive\texmf-local\tex\latex\comicsans.

  6. Ran mktexlsr to update the file name database.

  7. Ran updmap-sys --enable Map=comicsans.map.

  8. Ran mktexlsr to update the file name database.

Using TeXworks, I tested it with:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{comicsans}
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{comic}

\begin{document}
This is a text.
\end{document}

and it did not work. No font change, no error message.

Did I make any mistake, or miss any step? I believe some of the above steps are unnecessary, which one?

Best Answer

Your steps for installing the font appear to be correct. You get no font change in your sample document because you're defining ComicSans as the default "sans serif" font, but you aren't choosing that font family.

\begin{document}
Somebody would say that this \textsf{Hello world} printed
with a fancy font is awful.
\end{document}

If you want the font to be used throughout the document, redefine \rmdefault or say

\usepackage{comicsans}

This regards the technical part. Now a comment.

Don't use ComicSans other than for strips or particular short text. It's not a font designed for continuous reading and it will probably annoy your audience during a presentation or, in the worst case, make them laugh.

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