Installing additional fonts

TeX distributions usually install a lot of fonts. A package manager allows the installation of further fonts, like mpm with MiKTeX or tlmgr with TeX Live.

TeX Live includes only freely licensed fonts. Non-free fonts may be installed using a separate program. It's called getnonfreefonts. If it's not already installed with your version of TeX Live, you can download it from http://www.tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/.

getnonfreefonts –l

This command lists all additionally available non-free fonts. If you wish to install a font, give its name as the argument or just type the following to install all available fonts:

getnonfreefonts –a

Type the following to get a brief documentation:

getnonfreefonts

getnonfreefonts would install the fonts in your TeX home directory. To make the fonts available for the complete local system, use getnonfreefonts-sys instead.

Note

Progams ending with -sys work system wide. Further examples are: updmap-sys, which updates font map files, and fmtutil...