[OS X TeX] Re: Using old Adobe PS (Type 1) fonts

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 29 oct. 07 à 16:24, Guill. Moreno-Socias a écrit :

>   I want to use the font Bodoni in plain TeX.  I have the files
>
> Bodon
> BodonBol
> BodonBolIta
> BodonIta
>
> which are PostScript Type 1 outline fonts and
>
> Bodoni
>
> which is a font suitcase, all of them dating back to 1997.
>   I do not have the AFM files, and I have been unable to find them.
>   I have TeXLive-2007 installed on MacOSX 10.4.10.
>   Could you please tell me how to proceed?  I searched the archives
> without any luck.

A procedure is described at

<http://tug.org/mactex/fonts/fonttutorial-current.html>

It's partially outdated, but the adaptation to present-day TeXLive  
shouldn't be too difficult. Regarding the conversion to .pfb and .afm,  
see especially

<http://tug.org/mactex/fonts/fonttutorial-current.html#sec2-classic>

That said, with the advent of XeTeX (and Textures soon) there is  
really little incentive to go along this route any longer, apart from:

- being a purist,

- being a masochist,

- needing LaTeX packages for which no XeTeX supports exists yet,

- needing sophisticated math font trickery for which XeTeX is not yet  
well suited.

Bruno Voisin
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