TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ Some missing features in TeX Live (Fedora 10)

[joe74]

I'm under heavy use of TeXlive. I did install Fedora 10 for TeX Live 2007 comes by default.

I use mostly for my reports Utopia font style. I did a updmap and I see Utopia is included, but my late documents log this error (missfont.log):

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mktextfm putr7t
mktextfm putb7t

My other alternative is Arial, so I tried to install by doing:

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$ sudo getnonfreefonts-sys -a

but the command was not found.

Might there be something missing in my installation? and if so... What could it be?

Thank you in advance for the help.

[joe74]

Well. I've had to use some alternatives for I had to solve this ASAP.

But still I need Arial font style for the final version of one of my documents.

Any ideas in how to solve this Arial issue in my installation?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Joe,

you could try Helvetica:

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}

Concerning similarity, history and differences of Arial and Helvetica have a look at

• The Scourge of Arial
• How to spot Arial

Stefan

[joe74]

I got a similar set of commands. This you are showing me looks simple and easier, though. From the beginning I post in this category because I wanted to solve the global issue, but it's okay for I'm learning new things about LaTeX.

Thank you for the info Stefan.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I tried to install by doing:

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$ sudo getnonfreefonts-sys -a

but the command was not found.

On my TeX Live 2007 system (Ubuntu) getnonfreefonts-sys is contained in the texlive-base-bin package.

Stefan

[joe74]

In fact there's no such package (texlive-base-bin) in TeXLive 2007 for Fedora OS

[Stefan Kottwitz]

If you can't find it in the TL 2007 packaging you could try TL 2008. I've used its network installer and there were no problems with the installation.

Stefan