[tex-live] dvips can't find font

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Orm,

This is a Ubuntu/Debian question, ...

On Do, 07 Jan 2010, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
> I installed all tfm, vf and type1 files in the correct locations (with
> the correct canonisized names) and created a file
> /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10local.cfg
> 
> with the following contents:
> 
>   Map scala_sans.map
>   Map scala_serif.map
>   Map syntax.map
> 
> Then I ran 'texconfig rehash' and 'update-updmap'.

Did you call
	updmap-sys
as root?

update-updmap *only* updates the updmap.cfg file, but does not update
the actual psfonts.map itself.

That is documented in TeX-on-Debian.

(same like tlmgr generate updmap does)

Best wishes

Norbert
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