Re: [MiKTeX] is otftotfm missing from MikTeX?

[Josef K. <jos...@gm...>]

Hi

Ignasi Furió schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> yesterday I tried to install a new font (Stone Handwriting) in MikTeX  
> following documentation of softmaker-freefont package.
> I needed to use otftotfm which i could not find in my miktex.

In the documentation i wrote "e.g. with otftotfm ..." ;-)

> Finaly I could manage  
> installing otftotfm from http://www.lcdf.org/type/. I installed it outside  
>  from miktex and move and rename files by hand.

That's one possible way, as suggested in the documentation.

> Do you have any experience with this problem?
> 

Well, the Stone Handwriting font was offered for free as ttf and otf.
But LaTeX needs the font as pfb (Postscript Type1), so you have to do a
conversion in some way. In de.comp.tex.text another user reported that
he used fontforge without problem. MiKTeX does not include otf tools but
for Truetype and Type1. I have not tried but i guess that ttf2pfb should
work well with the ttf version.
Maybe you can write a feature request on the MiKTeX homepage, so that
Christian will include some otf tools, too!

I hope this helps,

Josef

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