How do I use Delicious font in my beamer presentation

Question

I want to use Delicious font in my beamer presentation. How should I install this font and/or use it in my presentation. I am running ubuntu 10.04 and have installed the font. I am wondering how do I use this font in my beamer presentation.

Answer 1

The default TeX engine cannot use system fonts directly; the font needs to be converted in a format that TeX can understand.

However, the newly developed engines XeTeX and LuaTeX can use OpenType fonts directly. You can adopt the method from a previous answer (with \setsansfont instead of \setmonofont).

Note that the version of fontspec included in Ubuntu 10.04 (the package is texlive-xetex) only works with xelatex. Also, it (and the Ubuntu XeTeX version) is rather old and might contain bugs. If something doesn't work, you should install TeX Live 2010 directly.

Answer 2

Put the fonts into the system font dir, which is on my Linux system /usr/share/fonts/opentype and then run with xelatex:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Delicious}
\let\sfdefault\rmdefault
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{Delicious}
 Some text with Delicious
\end{frame}

\end{document}