[OS X TeX] Minion Pro and Bickham Pro

[Richard Seguin]

On Apr 15, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Michael Sharpe wrote:

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> On Apr 15, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Richard Seguin wrote:
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>> Thanks for the sample! The sample actually looks pretty good. I opened the attachment in Preview and greatly enlarged it. If anything, it might be slightly too light, but as close to perfect as any other script I've looked at. I looked at the semibold version on the Adobe website and I think it would be too heavy -- more too heavy than the regular weight is too light. It appears to me that the regular version would print well at 9 and 10pt, or at least as well as boondox. (For example, my old ps type 1 Linoscript does not print well at 10pt and below.)
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>> I'm using the very latest TeXLive, I already have TeXFontUtility, FontForge, and the bickram.zip file from ctan. If I were to install this .otf font (changing the tilt angle to 20% as you suggest), what would be my easiest and most idiot proof overall route? I've looked at bickham-doc.pdf and TeXFontUtility.pdf and am a little unsure.
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> When you have the otf, you need to convert it to a pfb using cfftot1 that comes with TeXLive. So, open a Terminal window and cd to the folder containing your otf and type
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> cfftot1 BickhamScriptPro-Regular.otf BickhamScriptPro-Regular.pfb
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> which will create the required  pfb. If you have already installed the bickham package in texmf-local, you need to copy the pfb to the the correct place in that TDS with the command
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> sudo cp BickhamScriptPro-Regular.pfb /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/type1/adobe/bickhamscript
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> followed by
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> sudo mktexlsr
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> You do of course need to enable bickham.map with
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> sudo -H updmap-sys --enable Map=bickham.map
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> (The bickham package contains all the virtual fonts, ready and waiting for the physical pfb.)
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> Michael

Michael,

That was the regular weight font that you used in the sample, right? I thought I should confirm that before I proceed.

Richard