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From: Thomas A.Schmitz <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Re: Initial Font Installation Question (Mac)
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:01:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <624cc25b73f0805f272779a6f64f63aa@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2caec9707cfd148dc9e8aee824b470a@mac.com>

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.

HTH

Thomas

On Feb 21, 2005, at 1:58 AM, David Wooten wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I've been having a lot of fun struggling with the installation of a 
> newly purchased font, and wanted to double check a preliminary 
> question before I give in and ask a more thorough question ;)
>
> I'm working with Mac OS X, so I bought a font-set with both Mac TTF 
> and Postscript files. The Postscript folders have 2 types of file for 
> each fontname: .afm and another without a suffix. The names also have 
> uppercase letters, such as AndulBooBol (a.k.a. Andulka Book Bold).
>
> For the texfont script, it apparently needs the .afm files and .pfb 
> files. Thus:
>
> 1) Are these non-suffixed files the .pfb files in question? If so, 
> should I rename (add .pfb to) them before trying to install them? (I 
> could convert the TTF files to .pfb?)
>
> 2) Should I take away the UpperCaseLettering as well? Rename them to 
> something more Berry-like?
>
> In fact, I've tried these things with no success, but before I spell 
> out the details of my failure I thought I would get this straight.
>
> Kind regards,
> David Wooten
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-21  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-21  0:58 David Wooten
2005-02-21  9:01 ` Thomas A.Schmitz [this message]
2005-02-21  9:17   ` Adam Lindsay
2005-02-25  3:34     ` David Wooten
2005-03-11 23:40       ` David Wooten
2005-03-11 23:55         ` Adam Lindsay
2005-03-12 21:49         ` Adam Lindsay
2005-03-12 23:07           ` David Wooten
2005-03-12 23:58             ` Adam Lindsay
2005-03-13  0:31               ` David Wooten
2005-03-13 18:48         ` h h extern

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