[tex-live] perl script to install a postscript font into texlive2008

[ivo welch]

our usenet feed just made it, so I think there is a starter script on 
ctt.  i will try this one first.

regards,

iaw


ivo welch wrote:
>
> dear robin---I understand, but I need to give it a try anyway *with* 
> the Karl Berry naming translations, of course.  I have no choice: I 
> need to get certain new fonts installed on my system.  and, yes, I 
> wish I did not need it.
>
> Note that I do not need all generality.  I want to stick to our 
> texlive distribution and standard postscript fonts only.
>
> of all the guides to font installation on the web (I found about 5), 
> which is the most definitive and straightforward (least nuances for 
> odd fonts)?  I need to be able to install one font from start to end, 
> so that I can get started with some script.
>
> regards,
>
> /ivo
>
>
>
> Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>> ivo welch <ivo.welch at brown.edu> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> has anyone created a (perl or other) script that
>>> installs a postscript font into texlive (2008)?  I have tried to follow
>>> two different installation instructions on the web (which is probably
>>> what screwed me up), but so far no cigar.
>>>     
>>
>> as you've been told on c.t.t (i think it was), if the answer were
>> simple, such a script would already have been written.
>>
>> font installation (for use with dvips/pdftex/dvipdfm) is pretty
>> nightmarish, and the matter's rendered worse by the file naming issue
>> (you *really* don't want to use a font foundry's name for a pfb file,
>> and you've already been told the value of using the standard berry
>> scheme).
>>
>> robin
>>   
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