====== Installing the Type 1 versions of the CM fonts ======


This is a specialised case of [[https://www.latex-fr.net/5_fichiers/fontes/installer_une_nouvelle_police|installing a font]],
but it is almost never necessary --- it's inconceivable that any (even
remotely) recent system will //not// have the fonts already installed.
You can confirm this (near-inevitable) fact by trying the fonts.
On a system that uses ''dvips'' (almost all do), try the sequence:
<code bash>
latex sample2e
dvips -o sample2e.ps sample2e
</code>
at a "command prompt" (''shell'' in a Unix-style system,
"DOS box" in a Windows system).

If the command works at all, the console output of the command will
include a sequence of Type 1 font file names, listed as
''<//path///cmr10.pfb>'' and so on; this is ''dvips'' telling you
it's copying information from the Type 1 font, and you
need do no more.

If the test has failed, you need to install your own set of the fonts;
the distribution (including all the fonts the AMS designed and
produced themselves) is now described as [[ctanpkg>amsfonts]].
The bundle contains metric and map files --- all you need to
[[https://www.latex-fr.net/5_fichiers/fontes/installer_une_police_t1|install the fonts]].


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//Source:// [[faquk>FAQ-inst1cm|Installing the Type 1 versions of the CM fonts]]

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