Bug#186354: marked as done (Missing afm files for many fonts)
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From: Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net>
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Subject: Missing afm files for many fonts
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Package: tetex-extra
Version: 2.0-1
The tetex-extra package installs the Blue Sky Computer Modern fonts,
but not the associated afm files. For example, it ships:
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmss17.pfb
But there is no afm for this font to be found. I figured that maybe
the information was contained in there somehow, but pf2afm generated an
afm which did not include kerning information. I was trying to use
freetype which requires an afm file for every pfb to get the kerning
table.
The canonical version of these fonts I found here:
http://www.ams.org/tex/type1-fonts.html
Which includes the afm files. It seems that afm files do not exist
for many of the fonts in tetex-extra. I think that tetex-extra should
include them. This machine is using debian unstable.
Thanks,
-Billy
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From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Bug#186354: Missing afm files for many fonts
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On 26.04.04 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
> Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net> wrote:
Hi,
> > The tetex-extra package installs the Blue Sky Computer Modern
> > fonts, but not the associated afm files. For example, it ships:
> >
> > /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmss17.pfb
> >
> > But there is no afm for this font to be found.
>
> Later in the bug (see http://bugs.debian.org/186354) it was made
> clear that teTeX doesn't need those files. Therefore they should be
> packaged separately, and it was suggested that you file a Request
> for Package against the wnpp (Work needing and prospective
> packages) pseudo package.
>
> However, meanwhile there is something similar available: The LM
> fonts in the lmodern package, which are a completely free Type1
> "mimic" of the Computer modern fonts, in T1 encoding. It also
> contains afm files.
>
> Can this package solve your problem?
>
No reaction from the submitter for half a year, Closing.
Billy, we won't put the the afm-files into teTeX.
Again: Feel free to file a bug against the package wnpp to get the
fonts packaged if you're still interested in that. Just give it the
severity wishlist, tell what you would like to have done and why and
give the URL to download the afm-files.
Regards,
Hilmar
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