[cl-pdf-devel] Fonts?

[Carlos Ungil]

Hello,

I'm not an expert,  but I'll tell you what I did to have GillSans in 
cl-typesetting.

I use MacOS X and I had the following in my system:
/Library/Fonts/GillSans.dfont

cl-pdf needs afm and pfb files  (see cl-pdf/t1-font.lisp). The second 
file is optional
but I don't know what's the difference it makes, so I included it as 
well just in case.

I used http://fontforge.sourceforge.net to convert the font definition:
open the dfont file (and select one of the styles available)
execute File/Generate Fonts...
this generates the pfb and afm files
(the option "output afm" was enabled by default)

To use the :font "GillSans" just load it before:
(pdf:load-t1-font  #P"/tmp/GillSans.afm"  #P"/tmp/GillSans.pfb")

I hope this helps,

Carlos

On May 27, 2005, at 6:21 PM, Peter Seibel wrote:

> So can someone point me to or provide a brief summary of how to use
> new fonts with CL-PDF. I'm deeply ignorant of almost everything to do
> with fonts so please start at the beginning. For instance:
>
>  - In what format do I need to obtain the fonts I want to use?
>
>  - Where do I save them relative to the cl-pdf/cl-typesetting software?
>
>  - What else do I have to do to let cl-pdf/cl-typesetting know about 
> them?
>
>  - How do I know how refer to them in a call to pdf:get-font?
>
> -Peter
>
> -- 
> Peter Seibel                                     peter at gigamonkeys.com
>
>          Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp
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