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by nicolas
Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:55 pm
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: How to install true type font to pdflatex?
Replies: 3
Views: 5797

How to install true type font to pdflatex?

Okay - it now works for me. However there is room for improvement. After successfully installing one of the truetype fonts pdflatex uses the font but is awfully slow with it - processing the document now takes about thirty minutes for a single pass. This might be the reason, why all the fonts on my ...
by nicolas
Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:16 pm
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: How to install true type font to pdflatex?
Replies: 3
Views: 5797

Re: How to install true type font to pdflatex?

Thank you for pointing me to fontinst. I never came across this one, maybe I looked too specific for ways to install japanese/chinese fonts. I come back regarding this approach when I had time to check it out.

I decided to stick with pdflatex for some reasons: the microtype package, and some flaws ...
by nicolas
Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:59 am
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: How to install true type font to pdflatex?
Replies: 3
Views: 5797

How to install true type font to pdflatex?

Hi everybody!

I am trying to install a true type font for use with pdflatex to get chinese characters that are missing from wadalab or arphic font packages. I do not want to use xetex.

The system: ubuntu 10.04 and texlive-2009.

The following step-by-step process follows roughly what I found at ...