How to Use Times New Roman in pdflatex on Mac OS X

Whether you like it or not, sometimes you are asked, by your editor who thinks Word is the only way to prepare a document, to use Times New Roman. If you're allowed to use regular Times instead of Times New Roman, then there is a quick solution: just include

\usepackage{times}

in the preamble of your .tex file, and you're done. What if you are not given such an option? Then you'll have to convert the fonts, prepare various files with various extensions, put them in the right places, cast a magic spell in shell... Unless you have decent knowledge on how fonts work in LaTeX, which I don't have, you'll be in a deep trouble.

Fortunately, I could manage to make Times New Roman work in teTeX (Gerben Wierda distribution), thanks to people in the "Mac OS X TeX Fonts" mailing list (a subdivision of the Mac OS X TeX mailing list), especially Bruce D'Arcus and most importantly, Bruno Voisin. I thought this solution could be helpful for many stray sheep struggling to use Times New Roman in TeX on Mac OS X, so I decided to make it public by putting it on the web.

Since I'm a TeX font novice and I know little about the technical details, I simply give quick-and-dirty instructions below, without giving the logic behind them. See the links listed in the end of this web page for technical stuff. I owe most of what follows to Bruno Voisin, though errors and mistakes are my own.

1. Create .pfb files from your Times New Roman

There are a number of ways to do this, but I only list the one I actually did.

1. Download PfaEdit.
   1. If you have X Window System installed, go ahead and download "pfaedit Mac OS/X executable".
   2. If not, you might want to install X Window System (such as Apple X11, XDarwin, OroborOSX, etc.) and install "pfaedit Mac OS/X executable," OR download and install "pfaedit Mac OS/X WITHOUT X11". I do not discuss this latter option. See the instructions on the PfaEdit web site.
2. From X Window System, start PfaEdit (by simply typing "pfaedit" in shell).
3. From the File menu in PfaEdit, open Times New Roman located in /Library/fonts/. There are 4 versions of Times New Roman (regular, italic, bold, bold italic), and we need to convert all of them, one by one, into .pfb files. (You cannot do this all at once, so you'll have to repeat this process 4 times.)
4. From the File menu in PfaEdit, choose "Generate fonts" and generate "PS Type 1 (Binary)" under the names listed below:
   • "pnsr8a.pfb" for regular
   • "pnsri8a.pfb" for italic
   • "pnsb8a.pfb" for bold
   • "pnsbi8a.pfb" for bold italic.
   That's it for PfaEdit and XWindows.
5. Move these 4 .pfb files into your favorite texmf/fonts/ directory. I put them in ~/Library/texmf/fonts/type1/adobe/timesnew/.

2. Put various files in various places

Sorry that the heading doesn't make any sense. Anyhow, for your convenience, I made those "various files" downloadable: timesnewx.dmg. After downloading this...

1. Put pns.map in texmf/dvips/timesnew/
2. Put .tfm files in texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/timesnew/
3. Put .fd files and timesnew.sty in texmf/tex/latex/timesnew/