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In the meantime, I managed to get it working. I'm going to post what I did in a step-by-step way, starting from scratch without any tex-related packages installed. Maybe it will help some of you out there.

This worked for me on Xubuntu 8.04 (hardy).


Via your favourite Package Manager: Install ...

Thanks for your reply, linuxspice. I don't know if my source code will help much since the scaffold looks like this:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{winfonts}
\fontfamily{verdana}\selectfont
\begin{document} ... \end{document}

Then I use pdflatex in Kile and it tells ...

Hello again,

I tried some new things since my first post.

I downloaded the Winfonts.zip Package from CTAN and copied the unzipped directory tree to /usr/share/temxf-texlive. Then I used the following commands:

$sudo texhash
$kpsewhich winfonts.map
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/map/pdftex ...

Update: I could at last figure out a solution. See post 5 for details.

Hello everyone,

I hope this is the right place for my question.

I want to install the Verdana font (TTF) for my tex distribution. I'm using Xubuntu with the appropriate packages (tex-common and all texlive-blabla) and I'm ...