Re: kerning and TFM problems

["luigi.scarso" <luigi.scarso@logosrl.it>]

Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to use OSX HelveticaNeue font.
>
> So I open it in FontForge and - because I'd like to use the kerning 
> information - generate the Font with its PFB, AFM and TFM files.
>
>
> According to Bill's help page it should work by (renaming and) placing 
> the phnr8r.tfm in its tfm folder, the phnr8a.afm and phnr8a.pfb in its 
> respective folders (within my texfm-font tree).
>
> Then I need a mapfile texnansi-helveticaneue.map with the line:
>
> phnr8r HelveticaNeue 4 < phnr8a.pfb texnansi.enc
>
> And my test file looks like this:
>
> \loadmapfile[texnansi-adobe-helveticaneue.map]
>
> \definefontsynonym[HelveticaNeue][phnr8r][encoding=texnansi]
> \definefont[MySecondFont][HelveticaNeue]
> \starttext
> \MySecondFont I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold 
> there grew.
> \stoptext
>
> But it results in problems with the TFM file. Why?
>
>
> ! Font \**MySecondFont**=phnr8r at 12.0pt not loadable: Bad metric 
> (TFM) file.
> <to be read again>
>                    \relax
> \dododefinefont ...ontspec {#2}\rawfontidentifier
>                                                   \let 
> \localrelativefontsiz...
>
> \redodefinefont #1#2#3->\dododefinefont {#1}{#2}
>                                                 \doifsetupselse {#3} 
> {\setup...
> l.7 \MySecondFont
>                   I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of 
> gold th...
>
> ?
>
>
>
> Steffen
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Did you re-hash (mktexlsr or something similar) ?

luigi