Re: [Groff] Getting a font and adding it in grops

[andlabs]

Thanks! I used this to convert Arial Black to font AB.


Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
>> Hello. I have acquired some troff code that uses a font Helvetica
>> Black, code HK.  I'd like to know where I can get the font for FREE,
> 
> I don't know which free font can be used in stead of this one.  Is it
> really necessary to use *exactly* the same shape?  Otherwise I suggest
> that you look up font sites in the internet, trying to find a free
> font which looks similar to it.
> 
>> and how can I add it to grops' library of fonts?
> 
> Below you can find what the man page of grops (in the CVS of groff)
> says about font installation.  This topic comes up from time to time
> on the list, so searching in the archive should give you further help.
> 
> 
>     Werner
> 
> 
> ======================================================================
> 
> 
> FONT INSTALLATION
>        This section gives a summary of the above explanations; it can
> serve as
>        a step-by-step font installation guide for grops.
> 
>         ·  Convert your font to something groff understands.  This is
> either a
>            PostScript Type 1 font in PFA format or a PostScript Type 42 
> font,
>            together with an AFM file.
> 
>            The very first characters in a PFA file look like this:
> 
>                   %!PS-AdobeFont-1.0:
> 
>            A  PFB file has this also in the first line, but the string is
> pre-
>            ceded with some binary bytes.
> 
>            The very first characters in a Type 42 font file look like
> this:
> 
>                   %!PS-TrueTypeFont
> 
>            This is a wrapper format for TrueType fonts.  Old PS printers
> might
>            not  support  it (this is, they don't have a built-in TrueType
> font
>            interpreter).
> 
>            If your font is in PFB format (such fonts normally have  `.pfb' 
> as
>            the  file  extension),  you might use groff's pfbtops(1)
> program to
>            convert it to PFA.  For TrueType fonts, try ttftot42 or 
> fontforge.
>            For  all  other  font  formats use fontforge which can convert
> most
>            outline font formats.
> 
>         ·  Convert the AFM file to a groff  font  description  file  with 
> the
>            afmtodit(1) program.  An example call is
> 
>                   afmtodit Foo-Bar-Bold.afm textmap FBB
> 
>            which converts the metric file `Foo-Bar-Bold.afm' to the groff
> font
>            `FBB'.  If you have a font family which comes  with  normal, 
> bold,
>            italic, and bold italic faces, it is recommended to use the
> letters
>            R, B, I, and BI, respectively, as postfixes in the groff font
> names
>            to  make groff's `.fam' request work.  An example is groff's
> built-
>            in Times-Roman font: The font family name is T, and the groff 
> font
>            names are TR, TB, TI, and TBI.
> 
>         ·  Install  both  the  groff font description files and the fonts
> in a
>            `devps' subdirectory of the font path which groff finds.   See 
> the
>            ENVIRONMENT section in the troff(1) man page which lists the
> actual
>            value of the font path.  Note that groff doesn't use the AFM 
> files
>            (but it is a good idea to store them anyway).
> 
>         ·  Register  all  fonts which must be downloaded to the printer in
> the
>            `devps/download' file.  Only the first occurrence of this  file 
> in
>            the font path is read.  This means that you should copy the
> default
>            `download' file to the first directory in your font  path  and 
> add
>            your fonts there.  To continue the above example we assume that
> the
>            PS font name for Foo-Bar-Bold.pfa is `XY-Foo-Bar-Bold' (the PS
> font
>            name  is  stored in the internalname field in the `FBB' file),
> thus
>            the following line should be added to `download'.
> 
>                   XY-Foo-Bar-Bold Foo-Bar-Bold.pfa
> 
> 
> 
> 

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