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Re: Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy, msttcorefonts broken



Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:

>> Which is why it would be better for someone to donate their time and
>> make some free as in speech fonts.
> I wonder if we could share this problem with the TeX community.  Those
> people might have the same problem.  Perhaps some Metafont to Truetype
> converter might do the trick??? Just an idea.

Have a look at the pktrace package (upstream just renamed it:
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/mftrace).

For LilyPond, we had the same problem, and designed our own music
font: the feta font.  We use mftrace to convert our metafont fonts to
Type1 (pfa) fonts, needed for postscript and pdf.

Greetings,
Jan.

-- 
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org



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