[texhax] Using TTF, OTF and T1 fonts

[William Adams]

On Apr 8, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Peter Davis wrote:

> I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I have a closely related question.  I know XeTeX makes it very easy to use OTF fonts, but if I want to use an older, PostScript-friendly TeX, is there a script (Perl or something else?) that can automatically do all the work of making system fonts (TTF,

ttf2tfm

> OTF

Eddie Kohler's autofont:

http://www.lcdf.org/type/#autofont

But it breaks up fonts into 8-bit chunks which you then have to select among manually.

> and T1)

fontinst

> visible to LaTeX?  I'd like to be able to take a list of fonts, "install" them vis. TeX, and then run LaTeX and use those fonts via PSNFSS.

William

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