.LP
TrueType fonts can be used with 
.B grops 
if converted first to 
.B "type 42"
format, an especial postscript wrapper equivalent to the
PFA format mentioned in pfbtops(@MAN1EXT@).
There are several different methods to generate a type42 
wrapper and most of them involve the use of a PostScript
interpreter such as Ghostscript \(em see gs(1). Yet, the 
easiest method involves the use of the application 
.BR ttftot42 .
.B ttftot42
uses freetype(3) (version 1.3.1) to generate
.B type42
font wrappers and well-formed AFM files that can be fed to
the afmtodit(@MAN1EXT@) script to create appropriate 
metric files. The resulting font wrappers should be added to 
the
.B download
file.
.B ttftot42
source code can be downloaded from:
.IP
.B 
http|ftp://www.giga.or.at/pub/nih/ttftot42/