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Re: Example of truetype font packaged for tex?



On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:14:02PM +0200, Danai SAE-HAN wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> From: uwe@steinmann.cx (Uwe Steinmann)
> > I'm looking for an example debian package which makes a truetype font
> > available for tex/latex. Is there any?
> 
> I'm not sure that dvips actually supports TTF.  But I do know that it
> accepts Type1 fonts.
dvips supports TTF by using ttf2pk (see http://www.radamir.com/tex/)
For some reason it just doesn't call mktexpk (or ttf2pk) to create
the pk font.

> I have created a source package called latex-cjk-chinese-arphic which
> converts TTF to Type1 (using Fontforge), and installs everything
> according to the Debian TeX policy.  These Type1 fonts work in dvips,
> dvipdf(m,mx) and pdftex.
I have done that too, actually wrote a shell script which does
all the work and also creates a debian source package. It uses
ttfto42 or ttf2pfb for convertion to Type[42|1]. Converting TTF to
Type1 is a solution but not always the best one, because you
are loosing some information of the TTF.

> But this method might be a tad complicated for your use.
> You might try pdf2ps or pdftops.
That should work, but it would be much nicer if
latex -> dvips works too.

  Uwe


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