Trouble with fonts about heroku-buildpack-tex HOT 5 CLOSED

Problem solved! I wasn't aware that different .ttf files were necessary for each font type. Thanks for the help!

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Hi @sschloesser do the font's work for you if you compile the PDF on your local machine?

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Yes, both on my machine with the full texlive installation or on overleaf, the fonts work as expected, which is why I imagine some files might just be missing from the bare bones installation on heroku.

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@sschloesser is this a TTF or LaTeX Font?

• for latex font installing the corresponding package should be good enough. Perhaps you'll have to search inside your local (full) tex installation which package installs the font you need
• if it's xelatex and a normal TTF font, they can't be installed via tex packages. You have to have them installed on your local system. In our case we have a .fonts directory in our application repo, the fonts there get picked up by heroku/xelatex

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Ok so including the TTF font in .fonts and using it via
\usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Arial}
worked! The only thing that is still not working is bold via \textbf{bold text here}. Could that be a deficiency of the TTF file I used?

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