[OS X TeX] Fwd: [Macusergroup] Anyone Using LaTex on OS X? (font issues)

[Jason Davies]

can anyone help with this? I've suggested he join this group for 
more support.



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I took a quick course on LaTex/BibTex last week and thought: 
what a great way to manage my thesis, as long as I can get the 
fonts that I like to use installed (in a previous career I 
dabbled in graphic design).

Famous last words... four hours later, after working my way 
through this document:

http://homepage.mac.com/bkerstetter/tex/fonttutorial-current.html

I am completely, and utterly stumped on how to get my LWFN fonts 
converted and installed for use by Tex. Here's what I've done 
(and this is where I'm hoping someone might be able to give me a hand):

1. Let's say that I have a font file called CanPhotog (type is 
LWFN [i.e. Type 1 PostScript])
2. Running:
     > fondu CanPhotog
     Gives me a new file:
         CanPhotog.pfb
3. Running:
     > pf2afm CanPhotog.pfb
     Gives me a warning:
     pfm file not found -- ignored
     Encoding array contains name(s) absent from CharStrings dictionary
     And gives me a new file:
     CanPhotog.afm
4. Running:
     > afm2tfm CanPhotog.afm
      Gives me a new file:
     CanPhotog.tfm

 From here, the instructions get murkier and murkier. It looks 
like I need to generate yet more files but the README describes 
several different methods, none of which seem to make sense.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

jon

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I took a quick course on LaTex/BibTex last week and thought: 
what a great way to manage my thesis, as long as I can get the 
fonts that I like to use installed (in a previous career I 
dabbled in graphic design). 

Famous last words... four hours later, after working my way 
through this document: 

http://homepage.mac.com/bkerstetter/tex/fonttutorial-current.html 
<http://homepage.mac.com/bkerstetter/tex/fonttutorial-current.html>

I am completely, and utterly stumped on how to get my LWFN fonts 
converted and installed for use by Tex. Here's what I've done 
(and this is where I'm hoping someone might be able to give me a hand):

1. Let's say that I have a font file called CanPhotog (type is 
LWFN [i.e. Type 1 PostScript])
2. Running:
     > fondu CanPhotog
    Gives me a new file:
        CanPhotog.pfb
3. Running:
     > pf2afm CanPhotog.pfb
    Gives me a warning:
     pfm file not found -- ignored
     Encoding array contains name(s) absent from CharStrings dictionary
    And gives me a new file:
     CanPhotog.afm
4. Running:
     > afm2tfm CanPhotog.afm
     Gives me a new file:
     CanPhotog.tfm

 From here, the instructions get murkier and murkier. It looks 
like I need to generate yet more files but the README describes 
several different methods, none of which seem to make sense.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

jon

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Jon Reades
MPhil/PhD Town Planning

mobile: 0797.698.7392
email: j.reades at ucl.ac.uk



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