Re: [MiKTeX] droid package needs map?

[Bastiaan V. <Bastiaan@Veelo.net>]

On 20-8-2012 11:10, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:57:51 +0200 schrieb Bastiaan Veelo:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had some trouble getting the droid font package to work. The package
>> itself downloaded and installed on demand, but output other than dvi
>> failed with miktex-makemf complaining that a source file could not be
>> found. Yap would also fail to read the .dvi.
>>
>> I finally found that I had to do
>>     initexmf --edit-config-file updmap
>> then add the following line in the editor
>>     Map droid.map
>> then save and do
>>     updmap
>>
>> After that dvipdfm, yap and pdflatex worked as expected.
>>
>> My question: is this normal, shouldn't MikTeX be able to do this
>> automatically?
> It is not normal. Miktex should activate the map-file during
> installation of the fonts but sometimes this is forgotten. I can
> confirm that the map is not added to updmap.cfg. Make a bug report.
>
> Btw: In such cases you can also simply add \pdfmapfile{+droid.map}
> to your document.
>

Great, an instant workaround! I feared I would have to instruct my 
co-workers to jump through those hoops of updmap.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=110783&aid=3559793&group_id=10783

Thanks,
Bastiaan.