Bug#250216: dvips do not support True Type -fonts
Hi all,
From: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi>
Subject: Bug#250216: dvips do not support True Type -fonts
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 18:43:02 +0300
> On Fri, 21 May 2004, +17:57:26 EEST (UTC +0300),
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> pressed some keys:
>
> > Does http://www.radamir.com/tex/ttf-tex.htm not contain what you
> > want?
>
> I don't think so:
>
> "This is sufficient for generating DVI file, but to view or print it,
> there should be a raster (pk) font. MiKTeX will attempt to generate it
> automatically with new utility: ttf2pk. For successful generation ttf2pk
> should find both TrueType font and encoding file. It happens that ttf2pk
> can find ttf files, if they are installed and are in a system fonts
> directory, and it looks for encoding files in a directory
> c:\texmf\pdftex\base\ (among others)."
Hmm, I'm very confused. I found the statement;
As you can see, this time pdftex has found winfonts.map and
embeded encodingg file T1-WGL4.enc and TrueType fonts times.ttf
and timesbd.ttf into resulting PDF document.
Is this not what you want? Anyway,
> > > what I want is a possibility to use those font under normal
> > > (La)TeX, too. And in normal (La)TeX it must be done via dvips.
I have an impression that the above your request is a bit
ambiguous...
To use TrueType fonts under (La)TeX should be fairy easy
as the above URL showed and it is a quite another (or different)
issue to use TrueType font for printing or previewing.
Please elaborate your request if possible.
Basically it is possible to use TrueType font for printing
and we Japanese users in fact use TrueType fonts to print
Japanese characters in DVI files.
In a sprit, it would be same strategy as of the above URL but
in short we tell dvips that TrueType font "bar" is a printer
resident font "foo" and dvips generates PS file, then we print
generated PS through gs and gs replaces "foo" with TrueType
font "bar" (this might be not so precise however).
Regards, 2004-5-23(Sun)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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