From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6757 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: another example of fonts (pk files not found) Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 10:05:35 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020201100442.0368f328@server-1> References: <200202010047.BAA22628@smail.let.uu.nl> 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 1035397270 13541 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:21:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:21:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@let.uu.nl In-Reply-To: <200202010047.BAA22628@smail.let.uu.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6757 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6757 [forwarded, please use address known to list] 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 ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------