Re: truetype and tex?

[sandmann@daimi.au.dk (Søren Sandmann)]

Karl Berry writes:

> Sorry if this is a faq, but I noticed that Microsoft is offering
> some decent TrueType fonts these days, some done by Matthew Carter:
> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm

> ... and I'm wondering if there's any way to use them with TeX.  That
> is, get usable TFM's out of them somehow, and then either rasterize
> them into PK fonts or convert them into Type 1's?

The freetype library (<URL: http://www.freetype.org>) includes a high
quality rasterizer. This library should make it easy to write a
ttf2{tfm,pk,vf}.

Søren Sandmann