On Jan 11, 2008 9:17 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:

> Hi Pascal,
>
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:38:00 -0700, Pascal de Bruijn
> <pmjdebruijn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 11, 2008 8:25 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Does anybody have a clue why the first define went sour? Which tool
> is
> >> used
> >> > to extract the metadata from the .pfb files?
> >>
> >> Looks like a typing error in the pfb rename of  0018a___.pfb: it should
> >> be named zhum601bi.pfb (note the 'm').
> >
> >
> > Is renaming required?  I got the fonts from a CorelDRAW cdrom. I used
> the
> > files as is.
> >
> > Anyway other font collections also have deviating filenames, and they
> > work
> > just fine.
>
> In my experience, you have to get the coordination between pfb and tfm
> exactly right. Things are case sensitive etc... I'm sure there's just a
> typo or mismatch somewhere


I renamed all the fonts according to:
http://www.tug.org/fontname/html/Bitstream-fonts.html#Bitstream-fonts

I did this using a script, so there very little chance of error.

>>> Also, I'm currently installing in ~/texmf, however, say I'd want to
> >>> makethese fonts available system-wide, what would be the correct place
> >>> to movethem?
>
> Better to put them in texmf-local or, even better, texmf-project (may have
> to edit setuptex.bat in that case). I NEVER install anything in texmf if I
> can help it.
>
> See also the MyWay I wrote on this topic, maybe something in there will
> help.
>

I'll take a look at it tomorrow.

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn