[Tugindia] Re: tugindia Digest, Vol 19, Issue 1

[Amitava Das Gupta]

At 03:30 pm 1/7/2004, you wrote:
>Amitava Das Gupta <amitav at vsnl.net> writes:
>
> > At 03:31 pm, you wrote:
> >
> > >Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:50:05 +0530 (IST)
> > >From: "CV Radhakrishnan" <cvr at river-valley.org>
> > >Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Using Sabon type face
> > >
> > >>>>>>"Amitava" == Amitava Das Gupta <amitav at vsnl.net> writes:
> > >
> > >    Amitava> I am not very familiar with LaTeX, though I use it
> > >    Amitava> sometimes. I would like to know how to use a non-standard
> > >    Amitava> font in my work. Specifically, I would like to use the
> > >    Amitava> "Sabon" type face. I have put in the \usepackage{sabon}
> > >    Amitava> in the preamble, but the font does not appear in the dvi
> > >    Amitava> file, and while compiling, I get a "LaTeX Font Warning :
> > >
> > >    Amitava> The sabon.sty file, and all the required .tfm and .vf
> > >    Amitava> files are there inside the \texmf tree. I am using
> > >    Amitava> Windows98. Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > >You have to
> > >
> > >* buy the sabon fonts from foundries like Adobe or Monotype
> >
> > Does this mean that the .tfm and .vf files files that are already
> > there are of no use?
>
>Of course they are.  Linotype (or whoever else you want to buy Sabon
>from) won't give you .tfm and .vf files, and you need those for
>typesetting stuff with Sabon.
>
>They are TeX's keys to the fonts.  And if you want to acquire the
>fonts, you should acquire them in Type1 format for PCs.  Truetype is
>hard to integrate and of inferior quality, and Type1 for Macs will be
>troublesome, too.
>
>--
>David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
>UKTUG FAQ: <URL:http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html>

Thank you very much. That's one point that's clear now.


Amitava Das Gupta
amitav at vsnl.net