Installing Type I fonts in Windows XP

[David Ireland]

Dear Christina and all,

I have followed your earlier instructions and installed the New Baskerville
font on my Windows XP machine....but can't get it to work.  Following your
instructions and tying this up with the technical addendum and what it says
in the Companion, I end up with files named NBR.*, NBI.*, NBBI.* and NBB.*
:

The AFM files are in:
c:\yandy\FONTS\AFM

The TFM files are in:
c:\yandy\FONTS\TFM\TeXnNASI\tfm

The PFM files are in:
c:\WINDOWS\Fonts
and in
c:\yandy\FONTS\PFM

The PFB files are in:
c:\WINDOWS\Fonts

I want to make a whole file run with this font, but am not sure what I need
to do next.  Do I insert a '\newfont{\???}{name at size} into the preamble,
and/or do I use a \usepackage{???}?

What is the latex name for NewBaskerville anyway?  Is it 'pnb' or something
else?

This is the first time I've done a complete change of font like this, so
excuse me if I'm asking dumb questions.

Thanks for your patience and help!

Regards

David




On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:38:16 -0500 (EST) Christina Thiele
<cthiele at ccs.carleton.ca> writes:
> Neil A Weiss writes:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > We just got a new computer and it runs Windows XP (Home Edition).
>
> >
> > I think that you've addressed Windows XP installation issues
> previously,
> > but we just want to be sure that we install our new version of
> Y&Y
> > properly.
> >
> > * First, we install the fonts by choosing File > Install New Font
> . . .
> > in
> > the C:\WINDOWS\Fonts folder.  Correct?
>
> Yes.
>
>
> > * We have Type I fonts already on our hard disk. Those are the
> fonts
> > that we want to install, *not* the ones on the Y&Y TeX CD. Our
> pfb
> > files are in C:\psfonts and our pfm files are in C:\psfonts\pfm.
> Does
> > Windows want the pfm files or the pfb files? In other words, after
> we
> > choose File > Install New Font . . . in the C:\WINDOWS\Fonts
> folder,
> > do we point Windows to the C:\psfonts folder or to the
> C:\psfonts\pfm
> > folder?
>
> The Technical Addendum states (p.5) that
>
>    PFB and PFM files are required for viewing in DVIWindo, and both
>    are required for printing from DVIWindo using a Windows
> Postscript
>    driver. DVIPSONE, on the other hand, requires only the PFB
> files.
>
> So, I'd say you need both. And your paths for both are correct. If
> you've got icons set up you may well see font filenames with a
> lowercase red-a in front of them. These are the .pfb files. I
> _believe_ that the installation process on XP machines, as with ATM
> for the less-evolved OSs ;-) , takes care of generating and placing
> the .pfm files in the appropriate spot.
>
> Not being familiar with XP, I think I'd install the .pfb files but
> have Explorer (or whatever the XP equivalent is) open to keep tabs
> on
> what's being stashed into c:\psfonts\pfm. That is, I'd be confident
> enough that the .pfbs were going to the right place, but I'd want
> to
> make sure the .pfms were too.
>
> As for where to `point' Windows when/during/after installing, I
> believe it's to c:\psfonts -- the installation is based on the pfb
> files; the pfms, from what I can figure out, are a second-level
> item
> that's placed once the .pfb's been properly settled into place.
>
> > * After the fonts are copied (installed) to the C:\WINDOWS\Fonts
> > folder, we then install Y&Y itself, right?
>
> Yes. Now, if your Y&YTeX dates from the past 6 months, I'd suggest
> you
> do the basic installation, and then the LaTeX installation, but
> leave
> the CTAN portion out for now. You can always add that stuff later
> ... but we know that there's a bug in the install script for the
> CTAN
> portion, and it's not clear to me whether this just means that
> boites.sty won't be installed, or if the glitch has further
> ramifications for final installation. So leave off the CTAN bit.
>
> If you've been on this forum for a while, you might want to also go
> back to find a message with `bug-fixes.txt' in it -- it's a list of
> fixes that I found I had to make for my installation ... and I'd
> gone
> ahead with the CTAN install -- so perhaps some of my `bugs' are
> just
> symptoms of that boites.sty stumble. In any event, use it as a
> reference to double-check that things are as they should be.
>
> But you know -- it sounds like you have the right plan already laid
> out, so go ahead and install ;-)
>
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Neil A. Weiss
> > Voice: 928-541-1112
> > Email: neil.a.weiss at juno.com
> >
>
> Ch.
>
>
>