From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/18470 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Wooten Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Initial Font Installation Question (Mac) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:34:54 -0800 Message-ID: <4f1e51786a0426300cf3cf6ee324eccb@mac.com> References: <624cc25b73f0805f272779a6f64f63aa@uni-bonn.de> <20050221091711.28416@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109302579 7922 80.91.229.2 (25 Feb 2005 03:36:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:36:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Feb 25 04:36:19 2005 Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D4WGs-0005vY-CL for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:36:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0081278B; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:40:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21751-01; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:39:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210D7127A2; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:35:02 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DEE7127A2 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:35:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21509-04 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:34:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.72]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64FC127A1 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:34:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j1P3YvnN010610 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:34:57 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [10.0.1.2] ([69.111.131.124]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j1P3YsEA026972 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:34:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20050221091711.28416@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:18470 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:18470 Thanks so much! After a fair amount of tinkering & testing, I've got it worked out. Regards, David Wooten On Feb 21, 2005, at 1:17 AM, Adam Lindsay wrote: > Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:01:50 +0100: > >> Just a quick reply: >> >> having the afm is already very good. The file without an extension >> looks suspiciously like a Mac font resource. Can you try running the >> utility "fondu" on it (from the command line)? That will usually >> produce the pfbs (very likely, there's more than one: roman, italics, >> bold ...). Texfont, btw, can equally well work with truetype fonts, so >> if you have a proper tryetype font with extension .ttf. you might as >> well use this. texfont will produce a map entry that you will have to >> modify a bit (so it points to a .ttf instead of the default .pfb), but >> that's not too difficult. As to names: don't bother, ConTeXt is happy >> with whatever name you throw at it. > > Only a couple things to add: > When fondu generates the .pfb file, copy the .afm to share the new > (probably longer) filename. > > Texfont on MacOSX trips on capital letter extensions: make sure they're > uniformly lower case. > > If fondu fails you (it hasn't failed me yet), there's also t1unmac > (lcdf.org). > > And if texfont installation fails or inexplicably stalls, you might > need > to go in and truncate long (255+ character) lines by manually editing > the > text file. I've always found these to be comment/copyright lines, so > you're not hurting anything by doing so. > > You lucky so-and-so for getting Andulka! > adam