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Am Montag, 28. Januar 2002 12:07 hast du geschrieben:
> > there is ttf2afm but i'm not sure how complete the afm's will be
>
>with ttf2afm (from pdftex) I have had several problems:
>- problems with metrics:
>   o wrong linedistance
>   o missing lineends
>   o wrong heights for compound characters
>- since ttf fonts can be on a 4000x4000 grid and Type1 only on 1000x1000
>   there must be some scaling that ttf2afm does not ...
>
>But there is a good alternative with ttf2pt1.  From this you only need the
>function to produce the afm!
>
>Unfortunately, I have no time to make a suitable document about my
>experience with a ttf family for setting some documents with ConTeXt and
>LaTeX.
>
>Uwe
>
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