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Can anyone help me to change the font to "Times New Roman" in PDFLaTeX?

I already tried using the commands below without results:

% Font selection
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{times} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
Cfun
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Luca
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If you are compiling with pdflatex, this is one of several ways to get Times New Roman font for both math and text:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{newtxmath,newtxtext}
\usepackage{lipsum} % just to generate dummy text
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}

\setmainfont is a command of the fontspec package, which you can't use with the pdflatex engine.

musarithmia
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  • Thank you for your suggestion Andrew. It works but equations in math mode ($ equation $) still don't have the font Times New Roman. Can you solve this problem as well? Thank you in advance – Luca Jul 03 '16 at 11:37
  • Technically yes, nrwtxmath selects a font of math symbols that blend well with Times New Roman but are a separate font. This is what all math font packages in classic LaTeX do. You might look at unicode-math package for an alternative approach if you really need it to be a single font. – musarithmia Jul 03 '16 at 14:27
  • Thank you but it seems unicode-math package doesn't run with PDFLaTeX – Luca Jul 04 '16 at 07:41
  • Pdflatex only allows a certain number of slots for characters, enough for the basic English alphabet and most common symbols. If you want more symbols than that, you have to change to a different set of characters. This is done by having different font files for these different sets of characters. This limitation is built into the pdflatex program (oversimplifying a bit) and is a relic of an earlier era when computer memory was much more limited. If you want to use the full Unicode range of a single font, you have to use a different engine, xelatex or lualatex with fontspec package. – musarithmia Jul 04 '16 at 15:42