2010/11/11 Herbert Voss wrote:
I have a pfb and tfm file of the DANTE font, which has only the five characters D,A,N,T,E However, this did not work
\definefont[dante][dante at 16pt] \starttext \dante DANTE \stoptext
When I create a afm file from the dante.pfb then everything is fine.
Does ConTeXt always needs an afm-file for the metrics of an type 1 font? And, of course, a map file?
Shouldn't DANTE launch a pet project and convert the font to OpenType? (That should be 10-60 minutes of work for somebody familiar with fonts.) But yes, as Hans replied, you need afm file. pdfTeX gets all the font metric data from tfm files, while ConTeXt MKIV prefers to be able to use more than 256 characters when they are available in Type1 font (it doesn't need or read enc, map, vf and tfm files). Mojca