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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Postscript Type1 fonts & MK IV
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:17:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C7A09A3.7030209@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100829065038.GA1363@s70206.gridserver.com>

On 08/29/2010 08:50 AM, John Magolske wrote:
>
> Is it inherently tricky to get Type1 PS Mac fonts working with ConTeXt
> &  luatex on Linux?

It should not be.

> 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?

Yes. If the pfb font versions match, you should be able use the afm
from Linotype.

> load afm>  reading /home/john/.fonts/SomeMacintoshPSfont.afm

Why the odd afm name?  Is there a matching  SomeMacintoshPSfont.pfb ?

If there is, context cannot find it, and that is where this fatal
message comes from:

> Type1: Could not open Type1 font: (null)) )

Best wishes,
Taco
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-29  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-27 23:16 John Magolske
2010-08-28  2:59 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-28  8:30 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-29  6:50   ` John Magolske
2010-08-29  7:17     ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2010-08-29  8:11       ` John Magolske
2010-08-29  8:15         ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-29  8:23     ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-30  6:17       ` John Magolske
2010-08-30  9:38         ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-31  6:27           ` Postscript Type1 fonts & MK IV - [SOLVED] John Magolske
2010-08-31  7:31             ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-31  9:19               ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-31 11:20                 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-31 15:35                   ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-08-31 11:22             ` Khaled Hosny
2010-09-02  5:52               ` John Magolske

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