[OS X TeX] lucida fonts problems

Axel E. Retif axel.retif at mac.com
Fri Dec 29 21:01:34 CET 2006


On 29 Dec, 2006, at 06:02 , Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 29.12.2006 um 12:36 schrieb Thomas Weiss:
>
>> (1) I would like to typeset my document using the lucida fonts.
>> [...]  Or, should I simply try the route proposed in the
>> August 6, 2005 posting?
>
> It's probably best to use the latest description. Since there where  
> so many descriptions about using Lucida and I never bought these  
> fonts I never took any of these descriptions so serious as to  
> remember what was written on a particular day (by one or two  
> possible persons).
>
>> (2) The figures in the original paper were done with Illustrator 6
>> [...]
>>
>
> Could be these pages can help you:
>
> http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/WFTPDF/


I used this method for some time, but easier yet ---by the same  
authors-- is

http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/PDF-Processing-Apps.zip

You can read Gary L. Gray's quick tutorial here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx/21389/focus=21401

Best,


Axel


> http://www-texdev.ics.mq.edu.au/WARM/
>
> Adobe Illustrator will only work correctly when the Lucida fonts  
> are available in a format that Mac OS X accepts and are found in  
> one of the regular places where Mac OS X (system) fonts are stored:
>
> /Network/Library/Fonts
> /Library/Fonts
> ~/Library/Fonts
> (/System/Library/Fonts)
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> "engineer: a mechanism for converting caffeine into designs"


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