Hi, On 20 jun. 2011, at 19:19, Patrick Gundlach <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Am 20.06.2011 um 18:21 schrieb Ulrike Fischer: > >> >> Do someone know if and how I could dump the "virtual" tfm of a font >> like Arial or another system font to a file? > > ttf2tfm - build TeX metric files from a TrueType font Yes. (or Generate Fonts ... in fontforge, generate a type1 font, and turn 'create tfm' on in the generation options.) > >> table or something like this but really a "normal" tfm file (apart >> from the fact that it will contain more chars). > > I am pretty sure a tfm file can only hold 256 chars. So you need an encoding. > Yes, 256 is the maximum number of characters in a tfm. If you need other glyphs as well, you need to create multiple tfms. But I think ttf2tfm supports that without too much hassle. After all, ttf2tfm was written specifically to get usable truetype font support in pdftex. Best wishes, Taco
