* TYPE 1 font
@ 2010-11-11 8:16 Herbert Voss
2010-11-11 8:56 ` Hans Hagen
2010-11-11 11:10 ` Mojca Miklavec
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From: Herbert Voss @ 2010-11-11 8:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I have a pfb and tfm file of the DANTE font,
which has only the five characters D,A,N,T,E
However, this did not work
\definefont[dante][dante at 16pt]
\starttext
\dante DANTE
\stoptext
When I create a afm file from the dante.pfb then
everything is fine.
Does ConTeXt always needs an afm-file for the metrics of an
type 1 font? And, of course, a map file?
Herbert
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* Re: TYPE 1 font
2010-11-11 8:16 TYPE 1 font Herbert Voss
@ 2010-11-11 8:56 ` Hans Hagen
2010-11-11 11:10 ` Mojca Miklavec
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2010-11-11 8:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 11-11-2010 9:16, Herbert Voss wrote:
> I have a pfb and tfm file of the DANTE font,
> which has only the five characters D,A,N,T,E
> However, this did not work
>
> \definefont[dante][dante at 16pt]
> \starttext
> \dante DANTE
> \stoptext
>
> When I create a afm file from the dante.pfb then
> everything is fine.
>
> Does ConTeXt always needs an afm-file for the metrics of an
> type 1 font? And, of course, a map file?
yes, because in context it gets a unicode encoding (which also means
that you can access more than 256 characters if the font has them
no more encodings
Hans
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2010-11-11 8:16 TYPE 1 font Herbert Voss
2010-11-11 8:56 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2010-11-11 11:10 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-11-11 11:59 ` Herbert Voss
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From: Mojca Miklavec @ 2010-11-11 11:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
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2010/11/11 Herbert Voss wrote:
> I have a pfb and tfm file of the DANTE font,
> which has only the five characters D,A,N,T,E
> However, this did not work
>
> \definefont[dante][dante at 16pt]
> \starttext
> \dante DANTE
> \stoptext
>
> When I create a afm file from the dante.pfb then
> everything is fine.
>
> Does ConTeXt always needs an afm-file for the metrics of an
> type 1 font? And, of course, a map file?
Shouldn't DANTE launch a pet project and convert the font to OpenType?
(That should be 10-60 minutes of work for somebody familiar with
fonts.)
But yes, as Hans replied, you need afm file. pdfTeX gets all the font
metric data from tfm files, while ConTeXt MKIV prefers to be able to
use more than 256 characters when they are available in Type1 font (it
doesn't need or read enc, map, vf and tfm files).
Mojca
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* Re: TYPE 1 font
2010-11-11 11:10 ` Mojca Miklavec
@ 2010-11-11 11:59 ` Herbert Voss
2010-11-11 12:03 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Herbert Voss @ 2010-11-11 11:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Am 11.11.2010 12:10, schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> 2010/11/11 Herbert Voss wrote:
>> Does ConTeXt always needs an afm-file for the metrics of an
>> type 1 font? And, of course, a map file?
>
> Shouldn't DANTE launch a pet project and convert the font to OpenType?
> (That should be 10-60 minutes of work for somebody familiar with
> fonts.)
>
> But yes, as Hans replied, you need afm file. pdfTeX gets all the font
> metric data from tfm files, while ConTeXt MKIV prefers to be able to
> use more than 256 characters when they are available in Type1 font (it
> doesn't need or read enc, map, vf and tfm files).
thanks,
I converted it with fontforge to otf. Now I get
voss@shania:/opt/context> mtxrun --script fonts --list --all
--pattern=*dante*
dante dante DANTE.otf
dantenormal dante DANTE.otf
Is this the intended behaviour, that the afm files are now no
more listed? without the otf version the output is:
voss@shania:/opt/context> mtxrun --script fonts --list --all
--pattern=*dante*
dante dante dante.afm
dantenormal dante dante.afm
Herbert
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* Re: TYPE 1 font
2010-11-11 11:59 ` Herbert Voss
@ 2010-11-11 12:03 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2010-11-11 12:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 11-11-2010 12:59, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Am 11.11.2010 12:10, schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>> 2010/11/11 Herbert Voss wrote:
>
>>> Does ConTeXt always needs an afm-file for the metrics of an
>>> type 1 font? And, of course, a map file?
>>
>> Shouldn't DANTE launch a pet project and convert the font to OpenType?
>> (That should be 10-60 minutes of work for somebody familiar with
>> fonts.)
>>
>> But yes, as Hans replied, you need afm file. pdfTeX gets all the font
>> metric data from tfm files, while ConTeXt MKIV prefers to be able to
>> use more than 256 characters when they are available in Type1 font (it
>> doesn't need or read enc, map, vf and tfm files).
>
> thanks,
> I converted it with fontforge to otf. Now I get
>
> voss@shania:/opt/context> mtxrun --script fonts --list --all
> --pattern=*dante*
>
> dante dante DANTE.otf
> dantenormal dante DANTE.otf
>
> Is this the intended behaviour, that the afm files are now no
> more listed? without the otf version the output is:
>
> voss@shania:/opt/context> mtxrun --script fonts --list --all
> --pattern=*dante*
>
> dante dante dante.afm
> dantenormal dante dante.afm
indeed, as the names are the same, otf takes precedence over type one
Hans
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