installing MinionPro font on latex, some problems

Question

I wanted to install the MinionPro font for Latex (I obtained them via the free Adobe Reader). I found a description here which seemed reasonably easy (for a noob like me):

http://www.clarkdonley.com/blog/2015-03-07-installing-minionpro-for-latex-on-mac-os-x-yosemite.html

In order to use the FontPro I need the so-called LCDF Typetools, so I downloaded this:

http://www.lcdf.org/type/

Here already I have a problem since I get the following error when I try to configure these lcdf typetools:

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I can't find the kpathsea library and/or header files. Tell me where to look using the --with-kpathsea=PREFIX option (header files should be under PREFIX/include/kpathsea, and library under PREFIX/lib), or disable support using --without-kpathsea.

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So where to find this kpathsea library? I also tried to just forget about this and follow the steps of FontPro, but then I get stuck at step 4 when I run the makeall MinionPro script.

Eventually I just want to be able to include \usepackage{MinionPro} in my Latex files and use the MinionPro font.

Any help is welcome (keep it understandable for me though, probably you have noticed that I don't understand much of this stuff)! Thanks in advance.

The error I get (using FontPro):

AYK-3:scripts ayasirkilic$ ./makeall MinionPro
Chosen font family is MinionPro
otfinfo: otf/MinionPro-Regular.otf: No such file or directory
otfinfo: otf/*otf: No such file or directory
Found font version
No matching glyph list found
Please run "scripts/generate-glyph-list.sh > scripts/MinionPro-glyph-list-" after this script and use the resulting file with a clean script folder
cp: directory enc does not exist
cp: directory fontinst does not exist
cp: directory kerning does not exist
Creating PostScript fonts ...
cfftot1: otf/MinionPro*.otf: No such file or directory
./makeall: line 69: 10306 Segmentation fault: 11  t1dotlessj --quiet "$base.pfb" "${base}LCDFJ.pfb"
Creating TeX metrics ...
Can't open perl script "scripts/filtererr": No such file or directory
./makeall: line 92: scripts/maketfm: No such file or directory
mv: rename *.pfb to pfb/*.pfb: No such file or directory
maketfm failed, exiting ...

AYK

You probably already have the tools installed. What distribution of TeX are you using on which platform? — cfr, Jun 23 '15 at 13:59
I think MacTex (I hope this makes sense?) and I use TeXstudio as an editor. If there is a way to find this out easily tell me. — AYK, Jun 23 '15 at 14:07
Yes. Then you should have the lcdf tools installed already. So you don't need to worry about installing those, I don't think. What error do you get when you run make? — cfr, Jun 23 '15 at 14:11
I downloaded Adobe Reader for free, then if you right-click on the application you can find "Show package content". — AYK, Jun 23 '15 at 17:01
@AYK - You have to run ./scripts/makeall MinionPro; don't cd into scripts/ directory. — Arash Esbati, Jun 23 '15 at 18:20

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '15 at 19:59

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Follow ONLY steps 1-4 from the linked instructions. Steps 5-6 and 8 are simply wrong. Step 9 is pointless and step 7 is inefficient.

Instead, after completing step 4, do this:

./scripts/install $(kpsewhich -var TEXMFLOCAL)  
mkdir -p --parents $(kpsewhich -var TEXMFLOCAL)/web2c
echo Map MinionPro.map >> $(kpsewhich -var TEXMFLOCAL)/web2c/updmap.cfg
mktexlsr $(kpsewhich -var TEXMFLOCAL)
updmap-sys

If you are on Mac OS X and have not enabled root and are using a default MacTeX installation, you'll have to prefix every step with sudo or run sudo sh to get a privileged shell before you start.

Note that this is not tested as I do not use FontPro and am not using a Mac. I'm assuming that the instructions are basically right about how FontPro works. Given they are not reliable on how TeX Live works, this may not be a safe assumption.

Caveat emptor...

answered Jun 23 '15 at 19:59

cfr

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First of all thanks, with the comment of Arash Esbati I was able to complete step 4. Then I used the first line of you, everything worked fine. But at the second step I get to see: mkdir: illegal option -- -. I just copied exactly what you wrote. – AYK Jun 23 '15 at 21:31
Try just mkdir -p $(kpsewhich -var TEXMFLOCAL)/web2c then. – cfr Jun 23 '15 at 22:19
Yes I did this and it worked, but then the next commands does not work: sudo: echo Map MinionPro.map >> /usr/local/texlive/2013/../texmf-local/web2c/updmap.cfg: command not found – AYK Jun 23 '15 at 22:50
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Oh, I see. Use the sudo sh method to get a shell and type exit when you are done. It is because of the redirection. Or you can just open /usr/local.../updmap.cfg in an editor, with sudo, and then add the line Map MinionPro.map to it. (The file probably doesn't exist and will be created. But just in case it does exist, add the line to whatever is there already.) This is one reason I dislike Apple's anti-root policy. (And I hear it is going to get worse and they are going to make it even more difficult for people to alter their systems.) – cfr Jun 23 '15 at 23:09
It worked finally, thank you for your patience! – AYK Jun 24 '15 at 02:10
@AYK Glad it worked. Thanks for your patience with me forgetting various things! – cfr Jun 24 '15 at 02:45
Even after editing the /usr/local/.../updmap.cfg my pdftex was able to process the font, failing with mktexpk: perhaps MinionPro-Bold-Base-ae is missing from the map file.. Running updmap with no arguments as my non-root user fixed that problem. – OregonTrail Oct 06 '15 at 23:07
@OregonTrail You absolutely should NOT do that. It will cause you endless problems later. If you needed to do it, it means that you ran updmap at some point in the past - something that you should NEVER do unless you have absolutely no choice because you lack administrative rights required to modify TEXMFLOCAL. If you do lack such rights, moreover, it is probably an awful lot easier to work around not having the font than it is to deal with the hassle involved in use of updmap. – cfr Oct 07 '15 at 01:07
@OregonTrail and anybody else tempted to do this: please read my question and answer on this. That explains not only why you shouldn't do this, but what you need to do if you find this out too late. – cfr Oct 07 '15 at 01:09

pachadotdev · Answer 2 · 2016-09-19T15:58:36.797

Here are my instruction that I obtained by testing different tutorials. I do use Mac but once I did the install on Windows.

For Mac:

How to install?

Run kpsexpand '$TEXMFLOCAL' in terminal. That will be the location of the fonts.
Go to minion/ folder (this folder is in the zip with this document) from terminal
Run $ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/texlive/2016basic/texmf-local/fonts/type1/adobe/MinionPro
Run  $ sudo cp pfb/*.pfb /usr/local/texlive/2016basic/texmf-local/fonts/type1/adobe/MinionPro
Run  $ cd /usr/local/texlive/2016basic/texmf-local   $ sudo unzip sudo unzip /Users/pacha/Google\ Drive/tipografías/latex/minion/metrics-base.zip   $ sudo unzip sudo unzip /Users/pacha/Google\ Drive/tipografías/latex/minion/enc-2.000.zip
Run: $ sudo -H mktexlsr $ sudo updmap-sys --enable Map=MinionPro.map $ sudo -H updmap-sys

Solving issues

\usepackage[openg]{Minion Pro} won’t show the letter “g” and \ell won’t work with this typography. Here is the solution.

Go to /usr/local/texlive/2016basic/texmf-local/enc/dvips/adobe

Run $ sudo nano base-MinionPro-ab.enc

With ctrl+w replace

/afii61289 by /uni2113
/afii10069.ital by /uni0434.ital

For Windows:

Create the folder C:\texfonts
Unzip lucida-type1.zip and lucimacros.zip in the folder in (1).
Go to Miktex settings (Start > Programs > MiKTeX > Maintenance)
Add the folder in (1) (see image #1)
Update FNDB and formats (see image #2), click “apply” and “accept”

If it doesn't work do these additional steps in old Windows versions: (**) Enabling the Lucida map file under MiKTeX:

Edit the map configuration file updmap.cfg. In a DOS Window/Command Prompt window, run: initexmf --edit-config-file updmap. You'll want to edit this in a text editor such as Notepad. If the file or any of the leading directories do not exist, create them.
Add this one line to updmap.cfg and save it: Map lucida.map
Back at the DOS prompt, run: initexmf --mkmaps (Ignore any error messages.)

Image #1

Image #2

"Go to minion/ folder (this folder is in the zip with this document) from terminal" What folder? Which ZIP? — stx932, Mar 13 '18 at 14:02
sorry, this was a guide that I wrote for a company where I worked that zip is the zip file that you get when you buy the font — pachadotdev, Mar 13 '18 at 16:45

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 09 '20 at 07:52

The following worked for me with MacTeX 2020.

See https://github.com/sebschub/FontPro for upstream instructions.

Clone sebschub/FontPro
Install lcdf-typetools (brew install lcdf-typetools)
Copy MinionPro fonts into FontsPro/otf
Run sudo scripts/makeall MinionPro
Run sudo ./scripts/install

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 22 '21 at 13:35

Just a note (I don't have the MinionPro font so can't test), but if you are using LuaLaTeX and the fontspec package, you apparently don't need to convert the fonts, and you can just copy the .otf files in the project folder as reported here Minion Pro in Overleaf , not exactly the same as Adobe's Minion and load it with:

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Minion Pro}

installing MinionPro font on latex, some problems

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