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== Manual == The manual for TeXfont: [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mtexfont.pdf mtexfont.pdf] Many guides to its application are available on the [[This Way - My Way#MyWay|My Way]] page. == Known problems == The problems may result from misbehaviour of programs called by TeXfont or from TeXfont itself. === texfont fails with syntax error ===
(Tested on: TeXFont version 2.2.1; afm2tfm version 8.1 (dvips(k) 5.94b); Windows XP)
After you have done this to all the <tt>.afm</tt> files, <tt>afm2tfm</tt> should work and texfont should complete successfully.
=== texfont fails on overlong AFM lines ===
afm2tfm chokes on lines in AFM files that are longer than 256 characters; these shouldn't occur, but e.g. Linotype's lawyers forced endless copyright notices in their AFM files.
Just delete the lines starting with <tt>Comment Copyright</tt>, and you're done.
You also choose option '''3.''' above because afm2pl will ignore the excess info without choking.
(Maybe newer versions of afm2tfm fix this also.)
=== problems under Windows ===
[http://www.lcdf.org/type/ LCDF Typetools] have some problems under windows. For some unknown reason (most probably because kpsewhich didn't find adobe glyph list), I had to move <code>glyphlist.txt</code> to <code>C:\usr\local\share\lcdf-typetools\glyphlist.txt</code>. There were some other problems as well.
== System requirements ==
In order to install an [[OpenType]] font, you will also need [http://www.lcdf.org/type/ LCDF Typetools].
(There are probably more programs that need to be installed, but most of them are already shipped with standard TeX distributions.)
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