autoinst -- cannot use truetype font

Question

I'm trying to use the DroidSans font in a deck of slides I'm making with Beamer. I got the truetype file for this font, that is DroidSans-webfont.ttf, hence I executed, in my working directory:

$ autoinst DroidSans-webfont.ttf

This generated three files, specifically:

DroidSans.map
DroidSans.sty
LY1DroidSans-TLF.fd

Then, I included the following command in my .tex source file

\usepackage{DroidSans}

and compiled the source with pdflatex. Compilation fails, reporting this error:

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 0+300/600 --dpi 300 DroidSans-tlf-ly1--base
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for DroidSans-tlf-ly1--base.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file DroidSans-tlf-ly1--base): Font DroidSans-tlf-ly1--base at 300 not found
==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

What's going on here? Am I missing something?

Welcome to TeX.sx! Truetype is not easily accommodated in LaTeX. You could look at http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/226/19384 for some different solutions. — Peter Jansson, Jan 21 '13 at 13:08
You could use the droidsans package: Droid Sans in The LaTeX Font Cataloque. — Silke, Jan 21 '13 at 13:10
I tried using the droidsans package, still I got a similar error:
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 -mag 0+360/600 --dpi 360 DroidSans-03 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for DroidSans-03. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. (see the transcript file for additional information) !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file DroidSans-03): Font DroidSans-03 at 360 not found — Loris Fichera, Jan 21 '13 at 14:02
I'm currently using Ubuntu 12.04 with texlive. I manually installed the DroidSans package, downloading it from CTAN, as you pointed me. — Loris Fichera, Jan 21 '13 at 14:44
@LorisFichera: Can you upgrade to TeX Live 2012? See: How do I install the latest TeX Live 2012? It probably contains a properly installed version of the droidsans package. — Silke, Jan 21 '13 at 15:21
@silex: oh, thank you for sharing this. I did not know there was a way to install a newer texlive-extra-fonts package on ubuntu 10.04! — Loris Fichera, Jan 21 '13 at 20:32
@PeterJansson: He uses pdfTeX, which can handle TrueType fonts. This should work. — Martin Schröder, Jan 22 '13 at 08:55

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 21 '13 at 16:01

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You need to activate the map-file, either globally with updmap-sys (or updmap) or by using \pdfmapfile{=DroidSans.map} in your document.

answered Jan 21 '13 at 16:01

Ulrike Fischer

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