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From: "John R. Culleton" <john@wexfordpress.com>
Subject: Installing Truetype fonts in context.
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:21:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506041421.47001.john@wexfordpress.com> (raw)


--Like a good little TeXer I have always avoided Truetype fonts. 
But now I have a situation where the customer is requesting it,
and has provided the font. So I have tried to follow the
instructinns in the pdftex manual as well as those in Texfont
Explained manual. First I  got apparently clean results but the font
looks just like Computer Modern.  The only error message I can
see is one asking for a pfb file which of course I don't have. 

Then following an earlier post I tried something like this. The font
is a Devangari font, or perhaps more properly a Western font that
looks a bit like Devnagari script. Here is my run script:

-----------------------------------------------------
ttf2afm -e 8r.enc -o ds_izmir.afm ds_izmir.ttf
texfont --en=8r --ve=truetype --co=all --makepath --install
cd /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/
cat *map >plus.map
mv plus.map /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap
updmap
texhash
-----------------------------------------------------------
With this run stream texfont has two complaints: first that it is an unknown 
vendor and
second that it cannot find either a pfa or pfb file. 

There is a trick to it I am sure, and I am sure I do not know the
trick.



John Culleton
The answers to all your publishing questions are found 
in the excellent books listed in the word-famous shortlist!
http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

             reply	other threads:[~2005-06-04 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-04 14:21 John R. Culleton [this message]
2005-06-04 19:28 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2005-06-04 21:34 ` Hans Hagen
2005-06-05 11:46   ` John R. Culleton
2005-06-06 10:08     ` John R. Culleton

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