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Am Dienstag, 5. März 2002 22:47 schrieb Bill McClain:
> The pdftex manual shows how to use TrueType fonts: you put a line in the
> map file just as if it were a Type1 font.
>
> However, I only tried this once and the kerning was not right. I haven't
> had time to investigate since.

AFAIK pdfTeX does need TFMs and can't read the metrics from the TTF. So you 
first must make TFMs. I didn't try yet, but there must be a tool TTF2TFM or 
TTF2AFM...

Grüßlis vom Hraban!