[cl-pdf-devel] Fonts?

[Marc Battyani]

"Carlos Ungil" <ungil at mac.com> wrote:

> 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

The AFM is the font metrics and the PFB is the actual font content.

> 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:

Very interesting link!

> 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")

Marc