From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6750 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Fwd: [pdftex] Open type fonts Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:17:29 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020131171702.036ef180@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397264 13450 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:21:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:21:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6750 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6750 >X-POP3-Rcpt: hagen@server-1 >From: Kester Clegg >Reply-To: kester@cs.york.ac.uk >Organization: UTC, Dept of Computer Science, University of York >To: pdftex@tug.org >X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] >Subject: [pdftex] Open type fonts >Sender: pdftex-admin@tug.org >X-BeenThere: pdftex@tug.org >X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 >List-Help: >List-Post: >List-Subscribe: , > >List-Id: Extending TeX to output PDF >List-Unsubscribe: , > >List-Archive: >Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:12:39 +0000 > >I have written a little perl script based on an article at >http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~otfried/Pdftex/ >that sets up a true type font locally in a few seconds for use with pdflatex. >It works great with ttfonts. > >The script itself can use either ttf2tfm or a combination of ttf2afm => >afm2tfm, whichever is installed. However the script fails with open type >fonts as pdflatex claims it can't > "cannot open TrueType font file for reading" >etc. > >Does anyone know of a means of accessing the open type fonts, for example >those bundled with Win 2000. Is there a way linux users can access 'rich' >fonts, like Hoefler text that come with Macs? >k. > >-- >***************************************************** >Kester Clegg >Research Associate (UTC ) >Department of Computer Science >University of York > >Tel (01904) 432749 >***************************************************** >_______________________________________________ >pdftex mailing list >pdftex@tug.org >http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-pod.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------