[OS X TeX] kerning and TFM problems

[Ingo Reich]

Hi Steffen,
I forgot to say that a used a small programm called 'dfontifier' 
(donationware) to convert the mac-specific ttf-files to a ttf-format 
ttf2pt1 can read.
Ingo

Am 21.03.2005 um 19:45 schrieb Ingo Reich:

> Hi Steffen,
> I got HelveticaNeue to work in a standard LaTeX environment (don't 
> know about Context) as follows:  1. extract the .ttf-files with the 
> help of fondu,  2. convert to pfb (and generate the afm-files) with 
> the help of ttf2pt1 (use the binary in Tom Kiffe's CMacTex 
> distribution – runs natively on OS X –, not the one that comes with 
> i-installer)  3. convert the pfb-files (with another binary of Tom 
> Kiffe's) to pfa and change the fontname *within* the file from 
> 'Unknown' to the real name, reconvert to pfb (again with Tom Kiffe's 
> binaries);  change the fontnames within the afm-files from 'Unknown' 
> to the real name    4. generate the .map, tfm- and vf-files with 
> fontinst (just use the latinfamily macro). Sounds complicated, is 
> complicated, but worked for me.
> Hope this helps,
> Ingo
>
>
> Am 21.03.2005 um 17:55 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to use OSX HelveticaNeue font.
>>
>> So I open it in FontForge and - because I'd like to use the kerning 
>> information - generate the Font with its PFB, AFM and TFM files.
>>
>>
>> According to Bill's help page it should work by (renaming and) 
>> placing the phnr8r.tfm in its tfm folder, the phnr8a.afm and 
>> phnr8a.pfb in its respective folders (within my texfm-font tree).
>>
>> Then I need a mapfile texnansi-helveticaneue.map with the line:
>>
>> phnr8r HelveticaNeue 4 < phnr8a.pfb texnansi.enc
>>
>> And my test file looks like this (ConTeXt):
>>
>> \loadmapfile[texnansi-adobe-helveticaneue.map]
>>
>> \definefontsynonym[HelveticaNeue][phnr8r][encoding=texnansi]
>> \definefont[MySecondFont][HelveticaNeue]
>> \starttext
>> \MySecondFont I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold 
>> there grew.
>> \stoptext
>>
>> But it results in problems with the TFM file. Why?
>>
>>
>> ! Font \**MySecondFont**=phnr8r at 12.0pt not loadable: Bad metric 
>> (TFM) file.
>> <to be read again>
>>                    \relax
>> \dododefinefont ...ontspec {#2}\rawfontidentifier
>>                                                   \let 
>> \localrelativefontsiz...
>>
>> \redodefinefont #1#2#3->\dododefinefont {#1}{#2}
>>                                                 \doifsetupselse {#3} 
>> {\setup...
>> l.7 \MySecondFont
>>                   I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of 
>> gold th...
>>
>> ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Steffen
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