using custom ttf fonts in svg -- afm and pfb required?

[Erik]

I am trying to get gm to render some custom ttf fonts from an svg file.

This posting
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.graphicsmagick.help/1585
suggests I could modify my type.mgk file.

Looking in that file and at this reference
http://www.graphicsmagick.org/1.1/www/import.html
it seems I need to convert my ttf to an afm and pfb file?

Before I begin such conversions, wanted to ensure there was an easier way to do this, hopefully using the existing ttf files.

Thanks!

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, Erik wrote:

I am trying to get gm to render some custom ttf fonts from an svg file.

This posting http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.graphicsmagick.help/1585 suggests I could modify my type.mgk
file.

Looking in that file and at this reference http://www.graphicsmagick.org/1.1/www/import.html it seems I need to convert
my ttf to an afm and pfb file?

This is documentation for 1.1, which is a very old release branch.

Before I begin such conversions, wanted to ensure there was an easier way to do this, hopefully using the existing ttf
files.

using custom ttf fonts in svg -- afm and pfb required?

There is no need to convert anything. GraphicsMagick uses FreeType,
which supports many types of fonts. The example you found is for
Postscript fonts which use a separate Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) file.

It is necessary to create a type.mkg, or extend the existing type.mgk
via an include statement to include your fonts.

The hard part is to determine the properties of the fonts you have so
that they are properly described and will be automatically selected
based on their properties from your SVG. Each font requires a 'type'
specification:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<typemap>
   <type
     name="Arial"
     fullname="Arial"
     family="Arial"
     weight="400"
     style="normal"
     stretch="normal"
     glyphs="/my/font/dir/arial.ttf"
     />
     .
     .
     .
</typemap>

Use

gm convert -list type

To make sure that your .mgk file is being used and the descriptions
are ok.

Bob

--
Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

[Erik]

Thank you. This file I found was helpful in getting the keys right for a ttf file.
https://github.com/CliffsDover/graphicsmagick/blob/master/config/type-windows.mgk.in

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Erik wrote:

Thank you. This file I found was helpful in getting the keys right for a ttf file.
https://github.com/CliffsDover/graphicsmagick/blob/master/config/type-windows.mgk.in

Good. I tried to post an example but the mailing list text formater
destroyed it.

Bob

Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/