Following the instructions here I tried to install the Vollkorn font. Now, after some fiddling (see the comments on the above linked blog post) I managed to get the font to work, but there are some problems. First, it looks kind of jagged.
Second, loading the microtype
package seems to break it. I get this error:
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `LY1/vkn/bx/n' in size <10> not available
(Font) Font shape `LY1/vkn/b/n' tried instead on input line 17.
[1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}
! pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalable fonts.
\endgroup \set@typeset@protect
l.22 \end{document}
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on test.log.
Also, running pdffonts test.pdf
gets me some odd results:
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
[none] Type 3 yes no no 4 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 5 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 6 0
Something isn't working, but I'm not quite sure what. Any pointers on how to diagnose the problem?
Minimal example (although you probably could have worked this out yourself)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{vollkorn}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\textbf{Bold} \textit{Italic}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
pdftex.map
has lines for Vollkorn in it, but there is a.map
file for Vollkorn in thedvips
folder~/texmf/fonts/map
(and update maps then).ExactName.map
inExactPath
". Apart from this: Try on the command lineupdmap-sys --enable Map=mapfile
. Check if the command updated the pdftex.map and if it now contains your font entries.