On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 05:37:15PM +0100, Kester Clegg wrote:
And thus my hopes of being able to use my friend's large-ish collection of proprietary type 1 fonts with latex is really nothing more than an ill-researched pipe dream? Assuming that I could use them, as he got them for his work on Macs, but I suspect even this much is doubtful.
From a friend:
So the deal with going from Mac fonts to pfa/pfb is that you can
either use t1utils (from CTAN) which I believe does this kind of
thing, or do it by hand in the Mac OS. In the latter case, you can
use a word processor to create a document using the font of interest,
and print that to a postscript file using Apple's Laserwriter
Postscript drivers. Here you have to make sure that the font
inclusion is set to "all" and that you're printing to a file, not the
actual printer. Then you can open the ps file in a text editor, and
throw away everything except the bit between BeginFont and EndFont --
you should save that part as fontname.pfa, to get a perfectly usable
pfa file.
Sounds like a PITA, no? But at least it can be done.
C
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Corvin Russell