[yandytex] Installing Y&Y on Vista

[Lance Carnes]

At 03:15 PM 9/28/2007, Ganz, Frank, Springer US wrote:
>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.

PCTeX supports Type1 and TrueType.  Checking the fonts installed in 
PCTeX it seems we have tio and tir as "Builtin PostScript".

Lance

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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
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>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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