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I am trying to install comicsans following http://www.tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html and I also looked at installing comicsans to TeX Live, Windows, but it shows

pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file comic.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading
Check the TeX log file for more information

when compiling the test file

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{comicsans}

\begin{document}
This is a text.
\end{document}

I tried to run tex testfont for some tfm files and it seemed fine.

This comic.ttf file feels mysterious to me. Do I just download the ttf file somewhere and put it in the direction like the post above for Windows?

Ingmar
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I suggest to use either LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX: That way you can simply load existing .ttf and .otf fonts without bothering with LaTeX's font handling. Provided you have "Comic Sans MS" installed, this worked for me:

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Comic Sans MS}

\begin{document}


\large Oh, woe is me!


\end{document}

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Ingmar
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    Even easier, if you don't actually need Comic Sans, is to use the somewhat similar Chalkboard which is already installed on Macs. Load with \setmainfont{Chalkboard} as above and use Lualatex/Xelatex. – dedded Dec 08 '20 at 22:30