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Re: pfa2pfb

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  • Subject: [mg96627] Re: pfa2pfb
  • From: ragfield <ragfield at gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:28:55 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <gncmbc$ffv$1@smc.vnet.net>

On Feb 16, 3:37 pm, David <David.B.A.Epst... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> It seems that Mathematica provides fonts in the following
> forms: .pfa, .tfm, .afm. I must admit I don't know what all this
> means. dvips (a program used in conjunction with TeX and LaTex)
> apparently needs the fonts in the .pfb format. How does one construct
> a file of the correct type from the fonts provided by Mathematica.
>
> I'm using Mathematica 5.2. I could update using my university's site
> licence if that would help.

Mathematica 6 & 7 include pfb versions of the Mathematica fonts.

-Rob


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