Re: Postscript Type1 fonts & MK IV

[Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 11:17:18PM -0700, John Magolske wrote:
> * Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> [100829 08:37]:
> > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:50:38PM -0700, John Magolske wrote:
> > > 
> > > Also, the SabonLT-Roman.afm file that came from Linotype has a section
> > > titled "StartKernData", but .afm files generated using type1afm,
> > > fontforge, font2afm, etc. have no kerning section. Would using such
> > > .afm files cause sub-standard output with regard to kerning?
> > 
> > FontForge can load mac type1 kerning, see:
> > http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/faq.html#FOND-kern
> 
> Thanks, useful information linked there:
> 
>   "The mac stored kerning information in the FOND resource associated
>   with a bitmap font (it is not stored in the file with the postscript
>   font). If you wish kerning data for a mac postscript font, you must
>   find a font file containing a bitmap font with the same family and
>   style as the postscript."
> 
> Reading this, I went into the directory of the font in question,
> found the *.bmap file and ran `fondu -afm` on it. This created afm files
> for all the fonts in that family, each file including a "StartKernData"
> section with plenty of kerning data.
> 
> So I feel closer...at least I know how to create afm files that
> include kerning data. But unfortunately, I still can't get these
> fonts to work with ConTeXt. It must have something to do with the
> font itself, as the SabonLT-Roman.afm and SabonLT-Roman.pfb I placed
> in the ~/.fonts directory are working fine.

Try Taco's suggestion, I myself got unpredictable results with ~/.fonts,
try instead ~/texmf/fonts/{afm,type1} or even ~/texmf/fonts/data

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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