Local font installation problems

Question

Recently I tried to reinstall the MathTimePro II fonts in my local texmf directory. I already have Lucida fonts installed which works fine. So I carefully copied all the relevant files/folders to the directories, added the new Map entry in the local updmap.cfg file and executed texhash/mktexlsr and updmap-sys. However my new font does not work, I get the following error:

(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/../texmf-local/tex/latex/mtpro2/mtpro2.sty)
(./MTPro2 LaTeX test.aux)
[1{/Users/hesam/Library/texlive/2011/texmf-var/fonts/
map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2] [3] (./MTPro2 LaTeX test.aux)
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 4+0/600 --dpi
2400 mt2exf gsftopk: fatal: map file `cid-base.map' not found.
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for mt2exf. mktexpk:
perhaps mt2exf is missing from the map file. kpathsea: Appending font
creation commands to missfont.log.  )

!pdfTeX error: /usr/texbin/pdflatex (file mt2exf): Font mt2exf at 2400
not foun d

==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

It knows where to find mtpro2.sty in the local directory but can't find the fonts which are basically next door!

I have gone through a lot of online remedies but none have helped. I even restored the pdftex to an older version and started all over. The problem seems to be that the pdftex.map file does not have the fonts despite there being a map entry for mtpro2.

PS: I am using TeXShop/TeXLive (2011) on OS X 10.6.

Answer 1

The key is here:

[1{/Users/hesam/Library/texlive/2011/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]

You have, on some occasion, run updmap (not updmap-sys) and your TeX system uses the generated pdftex.map sitting in your personal tree.

Remove that file, so that the TeX system will use the global pdftex.map file.

To be on the safe side, after removing the file run from the Terminal the following commands:

sudo tlmgr generate updmap
sudo updmap-sys --enable-map <name>.map

(Change <name> into the correct name of the file in the MTPro distribution.)

In any case, adding the line

\pdfmapfile{=<name>.map}

before \begin{document} should make pdfTeX able to find the correct map file.

Answer 2

As recommended by @jon in this post purge latex or all the version of latex entirely from your system and install again that did the job for me. After spending some time trying in vain for hours to get latex use the right updmap file, reinstall latex completely.

If you face the same problem I suggest this answer which guide you towards completely removing latex from your system.. Make sure to search and delete any file related to /texlive/year/ before installing latex again.

Answer 3

UPDATE

Everything below is wrong. To understand why, please read: Why shouldn't I use getnonfreefonts to install additional fonts? Why shouldn't I use updmap when installing or removing fonts?

Note that the script I originally used came from this post. DO NOT USE this original script. A safer and updated approach to installing Minion Pro can be found here.

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I had a similar error when install MinionPro:

Library/texlive/2016/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
(./minionpro-test.aux)
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 0+545/600 --dpi 545 MinionPro-Regular-Base-aa
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for MinionPro-Regular-Base-aa.
mktexpk: perhaps MinionPro-Regular-Base-aa is missing from the map file.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

I found that updmap --enable MixedMap MinionPro.map was not sufficient. After reinstalling multiple times, I found that another run of updmap at the end did the trick.

   updmap --enable MixedMap MinionPro.map
   updmap