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Let us consider that the font is called “Example”, and provided as a suitcase Example Screen Fonts and four files Examp, ExampBol, ExampBolIta and ExampIta, together with AFM files Examp.afm, ExampBol.afm, ExampBolIta.afm and ExampIta.afm. For performing the conversion we use t1unmac, from the t1utils package. PFA and PFB files, by contrast, are platform-independent formats that gw T EX can handle. PostScript outline font files are already Type 1 fonts, but packaged in a Macintosh-specific format that gw T EX cannot handle this format is sometimes called LWFN, because the files are of type ‘LWFN’ (for LaserWriter Font), or POST, because the PostScript data in them are contained in resources of type ‘POST’. They are required by step 2 if they are absent, don’t panic, they can be recreated at will from the outline font files. AFM files are not used by Mac OS, but they are an integral part of a PostScript font. PostScript fonts are normally accompanied by Adobe Font Metric (AFM) files, one per outline font file.

We consider only PostScript fonts here non-PostScript ones will be considered later together with OS X fonts. There is also, of course, the possibility that the font is already in PFA or PFB format, sometimes called Windows or Unix format by suppliers if this is indeed the case, then jump directly to step 2.Ĭlassic fonts can be either non-PostScript, made of a bitmap or TrueType outline font suitcase, or PostScript, made of both a suitcase (used for screen display and non-PostScript printing) and one or several outline font files (used for PostScript printing).
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There are several free utilities for performing it, depending on the original format of the font. Let’s aim for PFB, and assume conversion is allowed. Otherwise you must purchase a Type 1 version of the font from its supplier, in either PFA (Printer Font Ascii) or PFB (Printer Font Binary) format.

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In any case you must first make sure that the font license allows conversion between formats.
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It also assumes that you have located and know how to display the following documentation files: In the following, for simplicity, I will speak of “gw T E X”. This tutorial assumes that you have installed Gerben Wierda’s distribution of te T E X and T E X Live for OS X, through i-Installer, and a front end to this distribution (like T E XShop, i T E XMac, O z T E X, CMac T E X or T E X Tools).
