[tex-live] tlpretest i386-cygwin: TrueType fonts in texmf-local not found

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/6/19 Rolf Dieterich <rolf.dieterich at arcor.de>:
>
> Hi Manuel,
>
>> Just curious, why do you want to install MinionPro in a texm tree rather
> than a
>> standard system location such as ~/.fonts? It works just fine this way.
>
> as one says: for historical reasons.
>
> I use to work with portable installations. Also on Windows I rather don't
> want to install the tons of fonts under c:\windows\fonts. Most of these
> fonts I use only in the context of TeX anyway.
>
I am not sure what is the license of Minion Pro, I am not sure that I
am allowed to copy it from one computer to another. I have therefore
just symlinked the Acrobat's font directory to /usr/share/fonts. I had
no time to test TL2011 so far but it worked fine in TL 2007, 2008,
2009 as well as 2010.

> Rolf
>
>



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