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InstPsFont in the run Utilities selection menu
of the main 4TeX menu. This utility makes its easy to use whatever PostScript font
you need in your (La)TeX documents. If you have a complete font family of
PostScript fonts you can use the utility InstPsFam to develop your own style file
and use this as your default font family (instead of the Computer Modern
family).
Before you can use a PostScript font within TeX documents you need several
utilities to convert the PostScript font into all kinds of other files (.vf, .tfm
and .pk). A PostScript font consists of at least two files: a .afm file and a
.pfb or a .pfa file. The .afm (Adobe font metric) can be regarded as the
PostScript equivalent of the .tfm file within TeX. I.e. it contains the information
about the sizes of the characters. The .pfb or .pfa file can be seen as the
PostScript versions of a .mf file Metafont uses. The difference between a .pfb and
a .pfa file is that the first one is an 8 bits file and the second one is an
ascii file.
If you do not have an .afm but only a .pfm (i.e. this file is used within
MS-Windows) you can convert the .pfm to a .afm by running pfm2afm.exe. This
utility can be found in the directory ?:\emtex\utils. Note, however that not all the
information contained in the .afm is also available in the .pfm, so there may be some
loss in quality.
We will not try to explain all the technical details but we will only
describe what has to be done to use a PS font within TeX. The first thing
that should be done is to convert the .afm file into a .tfm file. This
is done by the program afm2tfm. As a result of differences between font
encodings3
we also need a virtual font. The virtual font is generated by the programs
vptovpl.exe and vptovf.exe. When we want to view or print the font a bitmap
needs to be generated (i.e. a .pk file). This .pk can be generated by using the
ps2pk.exe program.
If a DVI-driver cannot find a specific font 4TeX will check if PostScript or
Metafont sources are available. If it is a PostScript font it will call ps2pk.exe to
generate a bitmap. If it is a Metafont font it will call Metafont. The user does not't
need to bother, after the detection of a missing font, 4TeX will check a file called
c:\texfiles\4system\psfonts.inf4
if it is a PS font. If you want bitmaps of PS fonts the PS fonts must to be listed this
file. If you want to use the PostScript font with dvips to print on a PS printer, then
you need to add this font to the c:\texfiles\4system\psfonts.map file. If you
want to use the PS font with Ghostscript the file c:\texfiles\4system\fontmap
must be updated. Of course all these files are updated automatically by the
InstPsFont utility.
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[F] choose Font to install
You can type the font name or use the wildcard options as anywhere else in the
4TeX workbench. You can select from all the .afm files that are stored in the
directory specified by the environment variable MYPSFONTS. This variable is stored in
the file c:\texfiles\4system\texuser.<os>.
[I] Install font
After selecting the font, the encoding and the type of transformation you now
can convert the PS font for use within TeX, simply by pressing this key.
Because not all the PS fonts follow Karl Berry's font naming rules, 4TeX takes
the first 5 letters of the PS font and the last character of the font name to
make the (La)TeX font. For example the PS font testfont.ps will result
in the TeX font testft. After generating the files needed within TeX and
updating the font-setting files, 4TeX will tell you how to use the font within your
document. Converting the font testfont.afm will result in the following
message:
The PostScript font testft is now available for use
within TeX. Within LaTeX this is done by
defining the font, e.g.
\font\ownfontname=testft
or
\font\ownfontname=testft at 12pt
or
\font\ownfontname=testft scaled \magstep2
The font is activated e.g. by the command
{\ownfontname This is a test}.
When using NFSS v1 just look at the file
d:\emtex\latex209\ps\avantgar.sty
and with NFSS v2 look at the file
d:\emtex\latex2e\psnfss\times.sty
how the new font can be used within NFSS.
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[E] change Encoding type
You can select one of the following three font encodings:
[T] choose Transformation
With this key you to select one of the following transformations:
[S] edit font Setting files
You can edit the font-setting files: psfonts.map, psfonts.inf, and fontmap.
[P] Print font table
After installing the font you can print a test page of the newly installed
font.
[V] View font table
After installing the font you can view a test page of the newly installed
font.
[L] show Log file font table compilation
In case there are some errors during viewing/printing the test page you can edit the
Log file to look for errors.
[R] Return to main menu
Returns you to 4TeX's main menu. Equivalent keys are [Q] and [Esc].
