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I have simple document (don't think about the meaning of Chinese characters, they are there only for testing purpose):

\documentclass[UTF8,a4paper, 11pt]{ctexart}
\begin{document}
第一项
\end{document}

If I compile it on my Linux machine, with a fresh complete installation of the TEX Live 2013, using:

pdflatex --shell-escape --synctex=1 document.tex

and both simhei.ttf and simsun.ttc are in the same folder like document.tex, then everything is fine and I get a nice PDF file.

However, if any of simhei.ttf and simsun.ttc are missing in this folder, then I am getting error message. Either

!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file simsun.ttc): cannot open TrueType font file for reading

or 

!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file simhei.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading

After 4 hours of testing and googling I still cannot figure out where to put these two files to avoid necessity to copy these into document root when I need work with Chinese characters again...

So far I have tested (with no luck):

~/fonts
/usr/share/fonts/truetype
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/chinese

(Additional fc-cache -fv performed of course.)

The result of fc-list :lang=zh-cn is:

NSimSun,新宋体:style=Regular
FangSong,仿宋:style=Regular,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Stand    aard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,Arrunta
KaiTi,楷体:style=Regular,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,Arrunta
SimSun,宋体:style=Regular
Efont Fixed Wide:style=Italic
Efont Biwidth:style=Bold Italic
SimHei,黑体:style=Regular
SimHei,黑体:style=Regular,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,Arrunta

Any help will be highly appreciated!

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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! A tip: If you indent lines by 4 spaces, they'll be marked as a code sample. You can also highlight the code and click the "code" button (with "{}" on it). – Adam Liter Mar 31 '14 at 16:26
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    Something like /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/truetype/public/chinese should work but you need to run mktexlsr /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local. Never install files by hand into /usr/local/texlive/YYYY as that tree should be reserved for the TeX installation itself. – cfr Mar 31 '14 at 22:09
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    Are you sure you are using pdflatex when it works? I don't quite see how that could but I'm certainly no expert on CJK fonts. – cfr Mar 31 '14 at 22:24
  • Does Manual font installation help? – Speravir Apr 1 '14 at 0:16
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Cfr is correct, it was sudo mktexlsr /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local what I was looking for. Thank you!

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  • Can you add the precise location where you put the two font files? – egreg Apr 1 '14 at 11:12
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    (Almost) exactly followed Cfr's advise: fonts saved into /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/truetype and then executed sudo mktexlsr (Path in command is not needed.) – Michal Gow Apr 6 '14 at 10:18

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