Installing EB Garamond for pdfLaTeX (encore)

Question

At the moment I try to get the EB Garamond font to work on my windows machine (under MikTeX 2.9), but I failed. By searching TeX.SX I found this two questions:

• EB Garamond on LaTeX
• Installing EBGaramond for pdfLaTeX

The first solution is too generic because it only points out the existence of the ebgaramond package on CTAN, while the second one consists in reinstalling the package by hand - which I tried without success.

As the README of ebgaramond demands I enabled the font-map of EB Garamond (by adding

Map EBGaramond.map

to the updmap.cfg, and then Refreshing FNDB and bashing

initexmf -u
updmap

to the Windows command line.) Is this alredy wrong? Maybe I am missing something completely basal in my test file:

 \documentclass[11pt]{article}
 \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
 \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
 \usepackage{ebgaramond}
 %\usepackage[DIV10]{typearea}
 %\usepackage{microtype}
 \usepackage{lipsum}

 \title{A \LaTeX\ Article}
 \author{Ruben Giannotti}
 \date{\today}

 \begin{document}
 \maketitle
 {{\large 1}\hspace{.5em}\scshape \uppercase{Introduction}\par\vspace{1em}}%faking a section title
 \lipsum
 \end{document}

When compiling with LaTeX a really bad looking .dvi emerges. (So I guess the maping should be alright.) But, when doing so with pdfLaTeX not even an output file is generated. The log file says:

!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file EBGaramond12-Regular-osf-t1--base): Font EBGaramo nd12-Regular-osf-t1--base at 548 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

By enabling microtype it changes a little:

! pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalable fonts. \endgroup \set@typeset@protect l.17 \end {document} ... ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

Edit

In the meantime I tried several things with the font mapping configuration. What I did in the first place was to modify updmap.cfg in the root directory of MikTeX, which is not ideal. So, I restored it to its original state. Afterwords I started the configuration with initexmf --edit-config-file updmap (which opens the corresponding config file in the roaming directory of MikTeX - at least on my machine). I finally made EB Garamond to work but - and this is a non acceptable drawback - I had to cancel out another mapping that I added before (MinionPro).

In short: With my actual knowledge and setup I can use only one of them, and what I deduce from what I did til now is that I simply use the wrong syntax to map the fonts (note the plural form) correctly. This is how my updmap.cfg looks like:

Map EBGaramond.map Map MinionPro.map Map MyriadPro.map

By the way, I did this because the MikTeX manual says

"Insert the following line at the end of the file: Map xyz.map"

Do I have to respect some syntax rules? Is this even wrong? Or could this be a sign that my whole distro is broken (see @DG's comments on his/her answer)?

Answer 1

According to this post Are itemize and EBGaramond compatible? there is a bug in EBGaramond.

Using the code @egreg posted in his answer, you can fix your example like this:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{ifluatex,ifxetex}

\ifluatex\else\ifxetex\else
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\fi\fi

\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\ifluatex\else\ifxetex\else
  \normalfont
  \makeatletter
  \input{TS1EBGaramond-LF.fd}
  \input{TS1EBGaramond-OsF.fd}
  \makeatother
  \DeclareFontShape{TS1}{EBGaramond-OsF}{m}{sl}{ <-> ssub * EBGaramond-OsF/m/it }{}
  \DeclareFontShape{TS1}{EBGaramond-OsF}{b}{n}{ <-> ssub * EBGaramond-OsF/m/n }{}
  \DeclareFontShape{TS1}{EBGaramond-OsF}{b}{it}{ <-> ssub * EBGaramond-OsF/m/it }{}
  \DeclareFontShape{TS1}{EBGaramond-OsF}{b}{sl}{ <-> ssub * EBGaramond-OsF/m/it }{}
  \DeclareFontShape{TS1}{EBGaramond-OsF}{bx}{n}{ <-> ssub * EBGaramond-OsF/m/n }{}
  \DeclareFontShape{TS1}{EBGaramond-OsF}{bx}{it}{ <-> ssub * EBGaramond-OsF/m/it }{}
  \DeclareFontShape{TS1}{EBGaramond-OsF}{bx}{sl}{ <-> ssub * EBGaramond-OsF/m/it }{}
\fi\fi

\usepackage[DIV10]{typearea}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\title{A \LaTeX\ Article}
\author{Ruben Giannotti}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}
 \maketitle
 {{\large 1}\hspace{.5em}\scshape \uppercase{Introduction}\par\vspace{1em}}%faking a section title
 \lipsum
\end{document}

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The package ebgaramond is in the repository of miktex, so it is advisable to use the package manager, instead of installing it manually.

Update

If this does not help, follow the steps outlined in the miktex manual:

1. Run initexmf --edit-config-file updmap.
2. Check for Map EBGaramond.map and add it at the end of the file, if absent. Make sure each entry is on its own line.
3. Save the file and close the editor.
4. Run initexmf --mkmaps to rebuild the font map files.
5. It couldn't hurt to additionally run initexmf --update-fndb

Answer 2

Even though the OP has indicated a reluctance to switch from pdfLaTeX to LuaLaTeX so close to the submission deadline, I'll offer the following method anyway, as it's really not that difficult to implement:

% !TEX TS-program = lualatex
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{EB Garamond}
% Remainder of document same as before, except: Don't load the
% fontenc, inputenc, or ebgaramond packages

Don't load the fontenc or inputenc packages, but do ensure that your .tex files are encoded in utf8. (If it's encoded in ASCII, you'll be fine.)