Re: use windows fonts and adobe distiller and lout

David Duffy <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jan 2020 01:23:41 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Can lout use the truetype fonts which come with Windows 10?
> (And I am using Adobe Distiller to make pdf from the lout generated postscript.)
>    ttf2pt1 -b $ff.[oOtT][tT][fF]  >>$logfile 2>&1

Maybe I shouldn't answer as I haven't used lout under Windows for many years, but AIUI, you use a tool like ttf2pt or FontForge
to convert from TTF to AFM (in the latter, "open" the ttf and "generate" the corresponding afm). Then add the matching entry to the lout fontdefs.

Cheers, David.