From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37873 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: What's the ps_name of AdobeMingStd-Light? Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:05:58 +0100 Message-ID: <115224fb0712100805w7f12e69fqbe882f92a9587bb9@mail.gmail.com> References: <769ba7780712100758o7f46e5f2m8b8ed42e5ced285@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197302798 9458 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2007 16:06:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:06:38 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Dec 10 17:06:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J1l9O-0001vv-U6 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:06:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610691FB23; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:06:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07122-02-5; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:06:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77A41FAF3; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:06:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A291A1FAF3 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:06:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07122-02-4 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:06:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2F71FACB for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:06:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id q2so1525857uge for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:06:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.67.20.11 with SMTP id x11mr6523576ugi.1197302758472; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:05:58 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.67.122.17 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:05:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <769ba7780712100758o7f46e5f2m8b8ed42e5ced285@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:37873 Archived-At: 2007/12/10, Zhichu Chen : > Hi, Hi Chen, can't you ue XeTeX or LuaTeX for your document instead of pdfTeX, it will be easier for you because you don't need tfm and map files and you need only the typescripts. > I searched the mail list for a while and I got that if I didn't specify the > font file, it will not be embeded and Acrobat Reader will just use its own > fonts to show the characters. > > I want to make some Chinese documents and I think if I don't embed any > fonts, it will be much smaller than it used to be. And there is a cool font > AdobeMingStd-Light.otf coming along with Acrobat Reader so I wish I can use > it. I converted it to ttf and then tfm files (I don't know whether it is > legal) and write the map file like: pdfTeX can use OpenType fonts and you don't have to convert them into TrueType format. > ================================ > uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-00 "Adobe Ming Std" " Unicode00Encoding ReEncodeFont > " ================================ > I think the first column is for the tfm files, and I do get the > uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-00.tfm to uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-ff.tfm files. And > the second column is for the PS name of the font. I really don't know how to > write it because it has spaces in it, and when I replaced it with another PS > name that has no spaces or other special characters in it, say SimSun as a > common Simplified Chinese font in Windows, it worked fine. > > So, any suggestions? XeTeX or LuaTeX. > Best Regards > Chen Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________