From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20679 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John R. Culleton" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Installing Truetype fonts in context. Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:21:46 +0000 Organization: WexfordPress Message-ID: <200506041421.47001.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117909546 23120 80.91.229.2 (4 Jun 2005 18:25:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Jun 04 20:25:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DedKa-0003vE-JE for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jun 2005 20:25:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A44127B8; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:28:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26192-05; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:28:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0346F1279D; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:25:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB52C1279D for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:25:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26207-03 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:25:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mta9.adelphia.net (mta9.adelphia.net [68.168.78.199]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72531277B for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:25:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from 69-174-190-44.frdrmd.adelphia.net ([69.174.190.44]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.01 201-2131-118-101-20041129) with ESMTP id <20050604182517.WITE8952.mta9.adelphia.net@69-174-190-44.frdrmd.adelphia.net> for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:25:17 -0400 Original-To: ConTeXt User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20679 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20679 --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