Btukfyl

I recently noticed that when using the usepackage{comicsans} package in Windows 10, by default, all characters turn into squares. After a bit research, it was due to the fact that COMIC.ttf is no longer supported(included) in windows system????

A bit of shocking news. But then I manually downloaded and installed the font. However, when I use textbf{text}, the characters wrapped inside still cannot be displayed correctly, as shown below.

Is there a way to solve it once for all?

Thanks.

documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}



usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts}

usepackage{comicsans}

%usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

%usepackage[math]{iwona} %nice font

usepackage[top=1cm,bottom=2cm,left=1cm,right=1cm]{geometry}



usepackage{enumerate}

usepackage{lastpage}

usepackage{fancyhdr}

pagestyle{fancy}

fancyhf{} % clears the header and footer

%fancyhead[C]{textbf{FE5116}}

fancyfoot[L]{Page thepage of pageref{LastPage}}



renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0pt}



begin{document}



begin{center}

textbf{Equation of a straight line}

end{center}



begin{minipage}[t]{0.55textwidth}



In mathematics we are almost obsessed with finding the equations of straight lines. There are different ways of doing this, but the best way is to use the equation:

[

    y-y_1 = m(x-x_1),

]

where $m$ is the gradient of the line and $(x_1,y_1)$ is the coordinates of a point on the line. \



So, using this equation, find the equation of the following lines, giving your answer in the form

[

    ax+by+c = 0,

]

where $a,b,c$ are integers (whole numbers -- no fractions).

end{minipage}

%

begin{minipage}[t]{0.4textwidth}

%

end{minipage}







%% new command %%

newcommand*{myQues}[1]{%

item #1 \

    vfill

    hfill $rule{6cm}{0.3mm}$ quad (3)

}%



begin{enumerate}[1)]

    myQues{The line with gradient $4$ that passes through $(1,3)$.}

    myQues{The line with gradient $2$ that passes through $(6,2)$.}

    cleardoublepage

    myQues{The line with gradient $1$ that passes through $(2,-3)$.}

    myQues{The line with gradient $10$ that passes through $(-4,-6)$.}

    cleardoublepage

    myQues{The line with gradient $-2$ that passes through $(4,1)$.}

    myQues{The line with gradient $-3$ that passes through $(-2,-5)$.}

end{enumerate}



%end{document}





cleardoublepage

Now, what happens if the gradient is a fraction? We still want our final answer to consist of integers -- so no fractions ldots



begin{enumerate}[1)]

setcounter{enumi}{6}

myQues{The line with gradient $frac{1}{2}$ that passes through $(5,2)$.}

myQues{The line with gradient $frac{2}{3}$ that passes through $(6,1)$.}

cleardoublepage

myQues{The line with gradient $frac{3}{4}$ that passes through $(2,-2)$.}

myQues{The line with gradient $-frac{1}{5}$ that passes through $(-2,4)$.}

cleardoublepage

myQues{The line with gradient $3$ that passes through $(frac{1}{3},4)$.}

myQues{The line with gradient $-2$ that passes through $(-frac{1}{4},-frac{2}{9})$.}

end{enumerate}



end{document}

The comicsans package does not include Type1 versions of the Comic Sans font, for legal reasons. You must have the TTF files installed first and follow the instructions in the manual to generate the 8-bit Type1 fonts for PDFTeX. The problem here was that you did not repeat this process after installing the bold font.

You can try replacing the comicsans package with fontspec:

usepackage{fontspec}

defaultfontfeatures{ Scale = MatchUppercase, Ligatures = TeX }

setmainfont{Comic Sans MS}[Scale = 1.0]

If you also want to replace the math letters, you might load mathastext afterwards, or

usepackage{unicode-math}

setmathfont{XITS Math}

setmathfont[range = up]{Comic Sans MS}

setmathfont[range = it]{Comic Sans MS Italic}

setmathfont[range = bfup]{Comic Sans MS Bold}

setmathfont[range = bfit]{Comic Sans MS Bold Italic}

According to Microsoft, Comic Sans MS is in fact included with Windows 10. As for why the font might not be installed, Microsoft explains:

A number of additional fonts are available for Desktop and Server, including all other fonts from previous releases. However, not all of these are pre-installed by default in all images. In order to make disk usage and font choices more relevant to users according to the languages that they use, a number of fonts have been moved into optional, on-demand packages. These packages are designed around the different scripts that fonts are primarily intended to support, and most are installed automatically by Windows Update when the associated languages are enabled in language settings (for example, by enabling a keyboard). Any of these Feature On Demand (FOD) packages can also be installed manually via Settings. To add font packages manually, Select the Start button, and then select Settings > Apps > Apps & features > Manage optional features.

If for some reason that does not work either, an older version of them is legally available gratis as part of the redistributable Microsoft Core Fonts for the Web. MS does sell workstation licenses for the most recent version of the font.