Fwd: [pdftex] Open type fonts

Fwd: [pdftex] Open type fonts

[Hans Hagen]

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>I have written a little perl script based on an article at
>http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~otfried/Pdftex/
>that sets up a true type font locally in a few seconds for use with pdflatex.
>It works great with ttfonts.
>
>The script itself can use either ttf2tfm or a combination of ttf2afm =>
>afm2tfm, whichever is installed. However the script fails with open type
>fonts as pdflatex claims it can't
>         "cannot open TrueType font file for reading"
>etc.
>
>Does anyone know of a means of accessing the open type fonts,  for example
>those bundled with Win 2000.  Is there a way linux users can access 'rich'
>fonts, like Hoefler text that come with Macs?
>k.
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Re: Fwd: [pdftex] Open type fonts

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2002 17:17 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> >Does anyone know of a means of accessing the open type fonts,  for example
> >those bundled with Win 2000.  Is there a way linux users can access 'rich'
> >fonts, like Hoefler text that come with Macs?

I'm just reading a book on (not only) this subject -- "Die PostScript & 
PDF-Bibel", 2nd edition, PDFlib -- but font handling is far above my head...

I read the book at work, I write this mail at home...

I understand that OpenType fonts...
-- use Unicode numbers internally (but TrueType should do so, too)
-- can hold glyphs with Type-1- (OTF) *or* TrueType-curves (TTF)
-- with TT-curves should behave like normal TT-Fonts, at least on Windows
-- can hold thousands of glyphs (maybe a problem with TeX and its 
256-char-fonts?)
-- need some help by the OS: you need >Win2k, MacOS X or FreeType2 for X, at 
least for displaying
-- use the same file format on all OSes (no special Mac fonts, no resource 
fork!)

HTH

Grüßlis vom Hraban!

Re: Fwd: [pdftex] Open type fonts

[Jens-Uwe Morawski]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:08:46 +0100
Henning Hraban Ramm <angerweit@gmx.net> wrote:

> I understand that OpenType fonts...
> -- use Unicode numbers internally (but TrueType should do so, too)
> -- can hold glyphs with Type-1- (OTF) *or* TrueType-curves (TTF)

AFAIK it is Type2 not Type1, thus pdftex can only handle TTF-based
OTF-fonts, and only the 256 first glyphs

Jens

Re: Fwd: [pdftex] Open type fonts

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am Sonntag, 3. Februar 2002 11:43 schrieb Jens-Uwe Morawski:
> AFAIK it is Type2 not Type1, 

You're right.

Grütze für alle!