[yandytex] Installing Y&Y on Vista

[Ganz, Frank, Springer US]

Hello All:
 
Opening up the .pfm file for tir, which is the font file name on PCs of
the Type 1 font with PostScript name /Times-Roman, reveals that Linotype
produced them and hold the copyright of this font. In some
correspondence I've had with Linotype earlier this year, I've learned
that they have indeed improved the Times font family and regard them as
obsolete. 
 
However, this does not mean that the old ones wouldn't work anymore,
esp. since one would need to produce TFM files that match the PFMs that
go with the newer versions.
 
It is my understanding that PCTeX supports TrueType fonts rather than
Type 1 fonts and so that might explain why one does not get the Type 1
version of fonts that are now considered obsolete by the font foundry.
 
Thanks,
Frank
 


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	From: yandytex-bounces at tug.org [mailto:yandytex-bounces at tug.org]
On Behalf Of Herbert Gintis
	Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 5:54 PM
	To: Christina Thiele
	Cc: yandytex at tug.org
	Subject: Re: [yandytex] Installing Y&Y on Vista
	
	
	At 05:24 PM 9/28/2007, Christina Thiele wrote:
	

		I do have a few questions ...
		
		1. why do you say 'tir' and `tio' and all the other
Times fonts are
		   `obsolete'? Has Times undergone some sort of upgrade,
so that one
		   has to get/buy new fonts? I did indeed purchase
tirsc, so this
		   isn't an idle question!

	        I don't know. Vista refused to load them, and several
months ago I complained to PCTeX that they didn't include them.
Technical support there said: "The ti fonts seem to be old Y&Y times
fonts...  These fonts may be difficult to install in PCTeX (or in any
modern TeX distribution).  You can check the Y&Y support list to see if
anyone has solved this problem mailto:YANDYTEX at tug.org ."
	
	

		2. You wrote:
		   > Read carefully all the warnings and suggestions
offered during
		   > installation.
		
		   Um ... which warnings and suggestions?! I've got both
the manuals
		   and the Tenhical Addendum for 2.2.3 and 2.2.8 ...
Then I have a
		   bunch of printouts on 8.5 x 11 paper, with such
filenames as
		   news.txt, instextr.txt, editlink.txt, CTinstal.txt,
various
		   `README.TXT' printouts (Oh, Berthold, why did you not
DATE these
		   things?! Not to mention use unique filenames! ;-)) )

	        If I had overlooked their suggestion to add
PSFONTS=....... to dviwindo.ini, the installation would not have worked.
I can't remember what else I was warned, but the other warnings did not
apply to me.
	
	Herb
	
	
	

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