Re: New font installation
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- Subject: [mg18845] Re: New font installation
- From: paulh at wolfram.com (P.J. Hinton)
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:57:45 -0400
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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In article <7n671h$gq4 at smc.vnet.net>, "DIAMOND Mark R" <gabrielle at psy.uwa.edu.au> writes:
> I begin with what I think is the easiest question.
>
> I would like to be able to use (say in Mathematica's StyleForm command), the
> Computer Modern Postscript fonts that I already have under (on a Windows
> machine) C:\Tex\... rather than \Program Files\Wolfram...
>
> Is it possible to do this, and if so, how?
This cannot be done in a normal Windows setup because the notebook front end
can access only those fonts that are supplied by the operating system itself.
Adobe Type Manager makes it possible to use Type 1 fonts in this manner,
however. Once it is installed and configured, all Type 1 fonts that you have
made available to ATM will be usable as fonts.
> The question is, perhaps more general, since I would like to be able to
> access the Wolfram fonts when I print TeX documents with dvips. My current
> setup leads dvips to complain about missing fonts. Ideally, I would like to
> have ALL postscript fonts in a single directory tree, accessible by any of
> the Adobe applications (photoshop etc) as well as by Mathematica and TeX.
>
> Are there any good references on how to go about this, if indeed it is
> possible.
To use the Type 1 Math fonts in a PostScript file generated by DVIPS,
you will need to use Jens-Peer Kuska's Mathematica Virtual Fonts Package.
If you are a Mathematica 3.0 user, you can get this package from the
General -> Utilities section of MathSource. The package is bundled with
the Mathematica 4 CD-ROM in the directory:
ToFileName[{$TopDirectory, "SystemFiles", "IncludeFiles", "TeX"}]
The documentation for the pacakge is a LaTeX document.
texmf\doc\wolfram\msymdoc.tex
If you would like a PostScript version of this file, you can contact
Technical Support.
http://www.wolfram.com/services/techsupport/contact.html
http://www.wolfram.com/services/techsupport/Hints.html
Other applications that can use Type 1 fonts should have as part of
their documentation a means of specifying where Type 1 fonts are on
your system. You will need to consult the products' documentation
to determine whether your goal is a feasible one.
--
P.J. Hinton
Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com
Wolfram Research, Inc.
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.