From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Alfredo Catalina <alfredo.catalina@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Zapf Dingbats font
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:01:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FCC6B44.4070303@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0n9efVL_Ab=YcxVHqUyZNvARMj9_x3CQ08T8YYM3YHkYQ5Dw@mail.gmail.com>
On 3-6-2012 09:04, Alfredo Catalina wrote:
> Ok, thanks Luigi.
>
> This is how I sorted it out, hope it may help someone. It looks like I
> should write a typescript and a symbol definition file, but I new to this
> and don't know how to do it yet.
>
> This is a workaround for the meantime:
>
> - Download the free True Type font "Zapf Dingbats BT" from
> http://www.ufonts.com/fonts/zapf-dingbats-bt.html
> - You should have got the file ufonts.com_zapf-dingbats-bt-2.ttf or an EXE
> file -an installer-
> - In windows 7 it may be installed by clicking "install" -context menu,
> right mouse click-
> - Generate Context font database:
>
> mtxrun --script fonts --reload
>
> - Check it's been read:
>
> mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=zapf*
>
> - You should have several lines like "zapfdingbatsbt
> zapfdingbatsitcbybtregular
> c:/windows/fonts/ufonts.com_zapf-dingbats-bt-2.ttf"
> - Finally this is how I get the characters I need:
>
> \definefont[zapfdingbats][ufonts.com_zapf-dingbats-bt-2.ttf at 10pt]
>
> \starttext
>
> Testing: {\zapfdingbats \char109} %shadowed white circle
>
> \stoptext
in the distrubution from the contextgarden
\definefont[zapfdingbats][ZapfDingbats]
should work as well
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-04 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-03 7:04 Alfredo Catalina
2012-06-03 21:32 ` Steve Peter
2012-06-04 8:01 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-06-04 8:52 ` Alfredo Catalina
2012-06-04 9:27 ` Hans Hagen
2012-06-04 9:33 ` luigi scarso
2012-06-04 9:50 ` Hans Hagen
2012-06-04 9:58 ` luigi scarso
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2012-06-01 22:36 Alfredo Catalina
2012-06-02 7:31 ` luigi scarso
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