[OS X TeX] Utopia fonts

[Stefan Kauhaus]

Am 24.03.2004 um 19:02 schrieb Maarten Sneep:

>> Yep. Have a look at  
>> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/mac/fonts/oztex/utopia- 
>> oztex.sit .
>
> Somehow these seem to be broken beyond repair for me.
> Are they in some TeX encoding, totally different from what Mac OS X  
> expects?
> How did they incorporate the font metrics anyway (they seem to work  
> without a screen font, this was a requirement in the past). Can I make  
> this transformation myself on other .pfb fonts?

I am by no means a font (t)expert, so I'm afraid I can't tell you  
anything on AFMs, PFBs and all the other funny little three letter  
acronyms (at least that's what they are to me ;-)).

I'm not sure what you mean by "work without a screen font". The Stuffit  
archive at the given address contains four "outline fonts" and one  
"font suitcase", that's what Get Info tells me. The font suitcase is  
named "Utopia (fam).scr" so I guess this one indeed is a screen font.  
If I put all five files into my ~/Library/Fonts/, Utopia will show up  
in Fontbook with four styles. If I take away either the .scr file or  
the four outline files, the whole font will disappear in Fontbook.

I've done a quick test with a few apps and cannot report any  
problems---all the letters work fine, even umlauts do. The Euro  
currency symbol is missing, though. I have not tested printing on paper  
since I don't have a printer here at home.

Regards
   Stefan


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