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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: another example of fonts (pk files not found)
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 10:05:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020201100442.0368f328@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202010047.BAA22628@smail.let.uu.nl>

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Am Montag, 28. Januar 2002 12:07 hast du geschrieben:
> > there is ttf2afm but i'm not sure how complete the afm's will be
>
>with ttf2afm (from pdftex) I have had several problems:
>- problems with metrics:
>   o wrong linedistance
>   o missing lineends
>   o wrong heights for compound characters
>- since ttf fonts can be on a 4000x4000 grid and Type1 only on 1000x1000
>   there must be some scaling that ttf2afm does not ...
>
>But there is a good alternative with ttf2pt1.  From this you only need the
>function to produce the afm!
>
>Unfortunately, I have no time to make a suitable document about my
>experience with a ttf family for setting some documents with ConTeXt and
>LaTeX.
>
>Uwe
>
>--
>mailto:uwe.koloska@mailbox.tu-dresden.de
>http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~koloska
>--                                    --
>right now the web page is in german only
>but this will change as time goes by ;-)

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       reply	other threads:[~2002-02-01  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200202010047.BAA22628@smail.let.uu.nl>
2002-02-01  9:05 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2002-01-27  1:00 Andreas Ulbrich
2002-01-27 14:13 ` Bill McClain
2002-01-28 11:07   ` Hans Hagen
2002-01-27 18:37 ` Hans Hagen

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