Re: Typescript for Helvetica - what's wrong?

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

Stefan Wachter said this at Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:54:27 +0200:

>I tried to write a typescript to use the Helvetica PDF base 14 fonts. 

Interesting problem. I haven't dealt with it, but it seems like a worthy
goal. I thought Patrick Grundlach (?) did some work with this, but I'm
not sure. Check the archives.

>Yet, the example below uses the (default) Computer Modern Roman fonts. I 
>wrote the typescript along the lines of the excellent help document at 
>(http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html).
>
>Thanks for your attention,
>--Stefan
>
>\enableregime[il1]
>\setupoutput[pdftex]
>\setuppapersize[A4][A4]
>\setuplayout[leftmargindistance=0cm]
>\setupheadertexts[]

Okay, put the following typescripts into a separate file (type-hv.tex):

>\starttypescript [sans] [helvetica] [texnansi]
>   \definefontsynonym [Helvetica]             [hv]   [encoding=texnansi]
>   \definefontsynonym [Helvetica-Bold]        [hvb]  [encoding=texnansi]
>   \definefontsynonym [Helvetica-BoldOblique] [hvbo] [encoding=texnansi]
>   \definefontsynonym [Helvetica-Oblique]     [hvo]  [encoding=texnansi]
>\stoptypescript
>
>\starttypescript [sans] [helvetica] [name]
>   \definefontsynonym [Sans]            [Helvetica]
>   \definefontsynonym [SansBold]        [Helvetica-Bold]
>   \definefontsynonym [SansItalic]      [Helvetica-Oblique]
>   \definefontsynonym [SansSlanted]     [Helvetica-Oblique]
>   \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic]  [Helvetica-BoldOblique]
>   \definefontsynonym [SansBoldSlanted] [Helvetica-BoldOblique]
>   \definefontsynonym [SansCaps]        [Helvetica]
>\stoptypescript
>
>\starttypescript [pdf]
>   \definetypeface [MyHelvetica] [ss] [sans] [helvetica] [default] 
>[encoding=texnansi]
>\stoptypescript

...and replace them in your source file with:

\usetypescriptfile[type-hv]

>\usetypescript[pdf]
>\setupbodyfont[MyHelvetica]

\setupbodyfont[MyHelvetica,ss]


>\starttext
>This is Helvetica, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic},
>{\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}.
>\stoptext

After I got my pdftex.map pointing to pdftex_ndl14.map (the hardest part
of all this), I was able to generate the PDFs with the correct,
unembedded fonts.

Hope that helps... you were pretty close!
adam
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