Re: [NTG-context] Postscript Type1 fonts & MK IV

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 11:17:18PM -0700, John Magolske wrote:

* Khaled Hosny [100829 08:37]:

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On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:50:38PM -0700, John Magolske wrote:

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Also, the SabonLT-Roman.afm file that came from Linotype has a section titled "StartKernData", but .afm files generated using type1afm, fontforge, font2afm, etc. have no kerning section. Would using such .afm files cause sub-standard output with regard to kerning?

FontForge can load mac type1 kerning, see: http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/faq.html#FOND-kern

Thanks, useful information linked there:

"The mac stored kerning information in the FOND resource associated with a bitmap font (it is not stored in the file with the postscript font). If you wish kerning data for a mac postscript font, you must find a font file containing a bitmap font with the same family and style as the postscript."

Reading this, I went into the directory of the font in question, found the *.bmap file and ran `fondu -afm` on it. This created afm files for all the fonts in that family, each file including a "StartKernData" section with plenty of kerning data.

So I feel closer...at least I know how to create afm files that include kerning data. But unfortunately, I still can't get these fonts to work with ConTeXt. It must have something to do with the font itself, as the SabonLT-Roman.afm and SabonLT-Roman.pfb I placed in the ~/.fonts directory are working fine.

Try Taco's suggestion, I myself got unpredictable results with ~/.fonts, try instead ~/texmf/fonts/{afm,type1} or even ~/texmf/fonts/data Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer