This tag is for questions concerning the TrueType font standards and Truetype fonts related issues.
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Why can't I use some TrueType fonts in ConTeXt while others can? [duplicate]
Today, After reading the chapters about typography and fonts in the reference manual, I tried to define my own typescript. After mtxrun --script fonts --reload, I wrote the codes like this:
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Chartwell fonts and changing colour with ligatures
Bit of a niche question. There is a beautiful set of TrueType fonts called Chartwell designed for producing graphs from text.
I am trying to get these to work in Latex.
I have switched to Xe(La)tex, ...
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autoinst — cannot use truetype font
I'm trying to use the DroidSans font in a deck of slides I'm making with Beamer.
I got the truetype file for this font, that is DroidSans-webfont.ttf, hence I executed, in my working directory:
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xelatex doesn't work with beamer and true type font
I am trying to use a true type font in my presentation but I cannot do that withxelatex. Pdf is created although a warning is displayed but font is not chosen one. Warning is below:
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Does TeXlive 2012 come with TrueType or OpenType equivalents to common fonts used with latex?
I'm using the package helvet in a document and would like to use the same font in a figure I'm making. Does TeXlive 2012 come with the TrueType or OpenType fonts that correspond to the helvetica clone ...
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Are there typographical drawbacks to using .otf font files?
Recently I've been messing around with different fonts in LaTeX and tonight got set up with the fontspec package which allows you to use .otf fonts in your LaTeX documents (in my case compiling with ...
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Dummy's solution for using of accent from one TTF glyph in another
I am making a document with the Josefin Sans font in LaTeX (using XeLaTeX). However, a pair of symbols I need (Žž) is missing there; I get just an empty space in PDF. I have no idea at all about ...
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encoding problem
I'm trying to write a program in Python that exports data into PDF. Unfortunately, the well known reportlab module is not available on Python 3. (What a shame.) So I have decided to generate TEX files ...
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human-readable ttf file display [closed]
I'm trying to educate myself about font systems, and I'd like to be able to look at an actual ttf file the way I can look at a metafont file. However when I load the file in a text editor (aquamacs) ...
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How to install and use the key fonts for a TI-Calculator in pdflatex or xelatex
This answer http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37550/4011 suggested that it should be possible to install a font which enables one to typeset the keys of a TI-calculator.
Now my question is, how to ...
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Latin Modern Roman for TTF
I can not find TTF version of popular LaTeX font family: Latin Modern Roman. I have found only OTF version. Is there any restrictions about TTF implementation or I am bad in searching?
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How do I use TrueType Fonts with PDFTeX using otftotfm?
I've heard that PDFTeX can use TrueType fonts. There have been several answers related to this, but of these only the first one mentions using otftotfm, which I'm told is the standard way to do it ...
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Free Open Type / True Type “Garamond” with real small caps and old style figures? [closed]
Does anyone know of a free open type or true type font from the Garamond font family that provides real small caps and old style figures? I have been looking around now for a while, but have been ...
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Is there a combined plain+bold+italic+bolditalic TeX font available as one TTF file?
I am using a GUI control that supports only 1 font. I'd like to find a single font file that combines TeX's main font's plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic font in one font file for use with that GUI ...
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XeLaTeX fontspec Century Gothic not using ligatures
I'm trying to use my Century Gothic TrueType font in a document, but it's failing to use the fl and fi ligatures. The input's below:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
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Confused with choosing TTF, OpenType, and Type1
Actually I don't know much about font formats such as TTF, OpenType, and Type1.
What are the differences between
TTF, OpenType, and Type1?
Which one should I use in PDF
produced by LaTeX?
How to ...
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How to generate pdf without any Type3 fonts?
For a publisher I have to generate a pdf file which does not contain any Type3 fonts.
Until now I thought that using pdflatex on current LaTeX distributions should be enough to get a pdf file without ...
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Custom radical sign with plain XeTeX
I would like to use Cambria Math font in mathematical equation, and I have a simple problem here. plain TeX uses many symbols for the root sign, so it can use the proper one depending on context, ...
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Specifying undefined ligatures with XeTeX
When I started to play with XeTeX, I noticed, that some of the True Type fonts does not produces the standard five ligatures properly (fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl), even if they have some of the proper ...
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Where to find nitty-gritty details about TeX and friends' font handling systems?
The current guides online and in texdoc that I could find did not deal with the problem I have.
How to generate font metrics for system installed TrueType and OpenType fonts?
How to generate font ...
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Installing TTF fonts in LaTeX
One of the annoying aspects of LaTeX is the limited number of fonts that come by default, and the pain involved in making new fonts 'LaTeX' ready. I have a collection of truetype fonts that I'd like ...
