Re: Font definitions.

[Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com>]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 11:29:35AM +0000, Dirar BOUGATEF wrote:
> 
> Am trying to define a synonym of my font at 24pt where am not sure at 
> which size my font is installed -should be 12pt- (The ttf includes all the 
> following sizes 12, 18, 24,36, 48, 60, .. but as i've done the install 
> from the pfb + afm that comes with it, i don't really know what size i 
> have now).

Both TrueType and Type1 fonts are scalable to any size you want. Some
applications (MS Word) will show you a limited selection of sizes, but
those are just the application designers' ideas of what sizes are
useful--they have nothing to do with the capabilities of the fonts
themselves. And regardless of what your Windows menus show, TeX uses its
own system for handling fonts. So don't worry about the size: if the
font is available at all, it is available in 24pt.

But how did you install the fonts, exactly? Did you use the texfont
utility? If so, your work is probably almost done, but texfont will have
generated some new map files that are probably not known to the system.
If you are trying to output PDF, then you probably just need to add
references to the new map files to the master pdfTeX config; with DVI,
it's a bit more complex, but again is basically a matter of editing one
or two map files.

> This is the error message:

It would be helpful if you also showed the exact command that resulted
in this error. Maybe the true TeX gurus can deduce from the output what
you were trying to do, but the rest of us need a bit more information to
have a chance of understanding the problem.

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