LaTeX forum ⇒ Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ arfonts package can't find fonts

[AleCes]

Yes, I got the error message that says the file already exists.

I deleted the link then forced the ln call as you instructed me to do, then ran pdflatex from the console but to no avail.

Here's the output:

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.This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
  restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./arabienglish.tex
LaTeX2e <2015/01/01>
Babel <3.9l> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/utf8.def
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.dfu)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.dfu)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omsenc.dfu)))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/arabi/laeenc.def
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/arabi/laeenc.dfu))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/arabi/arabic.ldf
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)
Loading the definitions for the LaTeX{} Arabic encoding
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/arabi/laeenc.def)
Loading the Common definitions for Arabic and Farsi
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/arabi/arabicore.sty
   Arabi Core switching commands v1.0  2006/01/01   (may still change)  )
Loading the Arabi fonts definitions for Arabic
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/arabi/arabicfnt.sty
   Arabic font switching commands v1.0  2006/01/01   (may still change)  )
Loading the Common definitions for Arabic and Farsi
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/arabi/arabnovowel.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/arabi/laecmr.fd))
*************************************
* Local config file arabic.cfg used
*
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/arabi/arabic.cfg))) (./arfonts.sty
 
LaTeX Warning: You have requested package `arfonts',
                but the package provides `ARfonts'.
 
) (./arabienglish.aux) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty
) [1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./arabienglish.aux) )
{/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/arabi/ararabeyes.enc}
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ae_AlMohanad_boldItalic.pfb): cannot open Type 1 
font file for reading
  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

[rais]

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!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ae_AlMohanad_boldItalic.pfb): cannot open Type 1 
font file for reading
  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

well, you cannot get this message compiling the code from your original post, simply because there's no usage of bold+italic...

The real name seems to be `ae_almohanad_boldItalitalic.pfb' in this case, so you could try

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ln -s `kpsewhich ae_almohanad_boldItalitalic.pfb` ae_AlMohanad_boldItalic.pfb

In any case you should contact the maintainer of the arabi package about these discrepancies between mapped and real file names.

KR
Rainer