[tex-live] PK fonts characters left blank by "dvips -P pdf" on windows
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Wed Nov 17 21:07:55 CET 2010
On 17 November 2010 Khaled Hosny wrote:
> I extracted the pfb files (with associated afm, pfm), wrote a map file
> and it seems to work, but y&y fonts lack 17, 12, 9 and 8 points, so the
> map file now looks like:
>
> bbold17 BBOLD17 <bbold10.pfb
> bbold12 BBOLD12 <bbold10.pfb
> bbold10 BBOLD10 <bbold10.pfb
> bbold9 BBOLD9 <bbold10.pfb
> bbold8 BBOLD8 <bbold7.pfb
> bbold7 BBOLD7 <bbold7.pfb
> bbold5 BBOLD5 <bbold5.pfb
>
> Is this right, or should I leave the missing sizes out so that bitmap
> fonts are used there?
Hi Khaled,
thanks for working on it. However, it looks a bit odd to me. As far
as I understand, a metric file always has to match the actual font.
If there is no actual font for 17 pt available, one would say in plain
TeX:
\font\x=bbold10 at 17 pt
In LaTeX you have to adapt the file 'Ubbold.fd' accordingly. This is
described in the LaTeX2e font selection guide, chapter 4:
texdoc fntguide
There are two things to consider:
1. Since 'Ubbold.fd' already exists, you have to create one with an
other name. A dedicated .sty file is also needed. It's not
possible to provide a simple replacement. A real 17pt font has
other metrics than a 10pt font scaled to 17pt.
2. The file texmf-dist/tex/latex/bbold/Ubbold.fd supports a limited
set of font sizes only. This is fine for bitmap fonts because you
don't want metafont to create bitmaps for 10.3pt if requested by a
user. Instead, a 10pt font will be used.
For Type 1 fonts this restriction isn't necessary. Thus, instead
of
<10> <10.95> <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88> bbold10
it's better to write:
<10-> bbold10
Then bbold10 will be used for any size equal or larger than 10pt.
For further questions I recommend
http://mail.math.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/tex-fonts
because there are the experts.
Regards,
Reinhard
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