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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label inst1cm</title>
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<h3>Installing the Type 1 versions of the CM fonts</h3>
<p/>This is a specialised case of <a href="FAQ-instfont.html">installing a font</a>,
but it is almost never necessary &#8212; it&#8217;s inconceivable that any (even
remotely) recent system will <em>not</em> have the fonts already
installed.  You can confirm this (near-inevitable) fact by trying the
fonts.  On a system that uses <i>dvips</i> (almost all do), try
the sequence:
<blockquote>
<pre>
  latex sample2e
  dvips -o sample2e.ps sample2e
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at a &#8220;command prompt&#8221; (<i>shell</i>, in a Unix-style system,
&#8220;DOS box&#8221; in a Windows system).
<p/>If the command works at all, the console output of the command will
include a sequence of Type 1 font file names, listed as
<code>&#60;cmr10.pfb&#62;</code> and so on; this is <i>dvips</i> telling you
it&#8217;s copying information from the Type 1 font, and you need do no
more.
<p/>If the test has failed, you need to install your own set of the fonts;
the distribution (including all the fonts the AMS designed and
produced themselves) is now described as <i>amsfonts</i>.  The
bundle contains metric and map files &#8212; all you need to
<a href="FAQ-instt1font.html">install the fonts</a>.
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<dt><tt><i>AMS and CM fonts, in Type 1 format</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/amsfonts.zip">fonts/amsfonts</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/amsfonts/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/amsfonts.html">catalogue entry</a>
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<p/><p/><p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=inst1cm">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=inst1cm</a>
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