Generala question about winfonts

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spiegboy
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a question about winfonts

Post by spiegboy »

i downloaded winfonts, but dont know how to install it, i read the instructions, but didnt get it.

my miktex is installed in c:\program files\miktex2.5

do you have any idea? thank you very much

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Re: a question about winfonts

Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Hi,

it would be easier to help if you don't just say you didn't get it, tell us instead what difficulties you exactly encountered, at which point of the installation you had problems. Your question is so general as if you want a completely rewritten installation manual instead of the package documentation.

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gayathrivishy
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a question about winfonts

Post by gayathrivishy »

Hi

I am trying to install winfonts.
Read me document asked me to do this.

0) First, the winfonts package could be already installed on your
system. Use the Miktex Package Manager to know if it is the case.

1) Unzip the file winfonts.zip on your local texmf tree (for example
"c:\localtexmf")
[I created a new directory c:\texmf

2) If you haven't create yet a local version of the file updmap.cfg
you should do that now. Consult the file

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${TEXMF}/miktex/config/updmap.cfg
and follow the instructions given.

Now add the following line at the end of your local version of
updmap.cfg:

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Map winfonts.map
3) If you haven't create yet a local version of the file ttf2pk.cfg,
you should do that now. Create the file

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${LOCALTEXMF}/ttf2tfm/ttf2pk.cfg
and add the line

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map ttfonts.map
Append to this file the line:

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map +winfonts_ttf2tfm.map


I followed these two instructions.
4) Refresh the file name database using "Miktex Options".
Now I opened this MIkTex options also. But I don't know how to update this and run the utility. Can somebody help me
5) Run the utility updmap.

6) Enjoy! The fonts are now available in your document with the
command \fontfamily followed by \selectfont. For example

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\fontfamily{verdana}\selectfont
to typeset your document with Verdana.

The documentation is in the directory:

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doc/latex/winfonts
Last edited by cgnieder on Sat Dec 22, 2012 3:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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