Re: pfa2pfb
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- Subject: [mg96688] Re: pfa2pfb
- From: Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <mariano.suarezalvarez at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:49:08 -0500 (EST)
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On Feb 17, 9:25 am, Jens-Peer Kuska <ku... at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote: > Hi, > > that is nonsense, dvips work with binary *.pfb and ASCII > PostScript fonts. Just find the font map file for dvips > that comes with you Mathematica and add the texmf root > that is part of the Mathematica distribution to the > texmf roots that your TeX system searches. > > If you have MikTeX or teTeX fin the fontname/wolfram.map > in the TeX installation root and delete it. > This file is a false font map file, I have reported it several > times to the developers but they had other things to do than > to replace the file with the correct one that comes with > Mathematica. > > Regards > Jens > > David 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. > > > Apparently there are programs with names like pfa2pfb, maybe one in > > perl. Does anyone know how I can get these? > > > I work on Mac Os X 10.4.11. > > > Thanks > > David Epstein I would have expected Wolfram to update the notebook.sty file they ship so that, at the very least, the example at the top uses LaTeX2e! Oh well :) -- m