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I have just done what was needed to make Gill Sans to work with my LaTeX package. It took a lot of misery to get to this point but I'm pleased to have done so.

However, there is a problem when displaying the two letters 'fi' together. Instead it spits out the empty square character. Secondly, the resolution of each character is noticeably words than with the stock fonts.

Is there an explanation for why this is the case? I would be grateful for any suggested solutions.

Edit:

I have put the files in the relevant directories (including .tfm, .fd and style files) and updated the map file.

Just to clarify, the 'f' and 'i' characters display fine on their own, but only together cause this problem. I have also noticed that quotation marks also give the same result (square character), which makes me think that the problem is cause because Latex can't cope with the small spacings

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There are a number of ways you might be working. Please add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. – Joseph Wright♦ Aug 15 '12 at 13:17
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Well the first sound as if either your font don't have the ligature or you did something wrong. The second as if you are using bitmaps. But without access to all the files it is very difficult to debug this sort of problems. – Ulrike Fischer Aug 15 '12 at 13:34
I'm not really sure how to give a minimum working example for this. I've edited the question to try and give a bit more of a description. – user1488804 Aug 15 '12 at 13:42
The sentence "I'm using the Virtual font format instead" makes no sense. "virtual" fonts are virtual. You can't use them instead of real fonts (type1 or ttf or whatever). I repeat my advice: read the fontinstallationguide and use fontinst. – Ulrike Fischer Aug 15 '12 at 14:01
Ah silly me. The reason I misunderstood this was because I was removing files/types of file one by one to see what effect each had. Moving the .afm and .pfb files from their directories didn't have any effect on the pdf, so I assumed the .vf (and .tfm) files were doing the work – user1488804 Aug 15 '12 at 14:43
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closed as too localized by lockstep, Marco Daniel, Claudio Fiandrino, Torbjørn T., Joseph Wright♦ Sep 22 '12 at 19:23

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