On Jun 4, 2005, at 4:21 PM, John R. Culleton wrote:
--Like a good little TeXer I have always avoided Truetype fonts. But now I have a situation where the customer is requesting it, and has provided the font. So I have tried to follow the instructinns in the pdftex manual as well as those in Texfont Explained manual. First I got apparently clean results but the font looks just like Computer Modern. The only error message I can see is one asking for a pfb file which of course I don't have.
Then following an earlier post I tried something like this. The font is a Devangari font, or perhaps more properly a Western font that looks a bit like Devnagari script. Here is my run script:
----------------------------------------------------- ttf2afm -e 8r.enc -o ds_izmir.afm ds_izmir.ttf texfont --en=8r --ve=truetype --co=all --makepath --install cd /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ cat *map >plus.map mv plus.map /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap updmap texhash ----------------------------------------------------------- With this run stream texfont has two complaints: first that it is an unknown vendor and second that it cannot find either a pfa or pfb file.
There is a trick to it I am sure, and I am sure I do not know the trick.
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This: http://tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/schmitz/schmitz.pdf might have a lot of information that is too basic for you, but it just might hold some useful bits and pieces. In your case, the key is that you created a afm. If texfont "sees" a afm, it expects the font to be a pfb. The tfm it creates is valid nevertheless, you just have to adjust the map accordingly. But if you follow the advice in the article above, things should be easier. Good luck Thomas