LaTeX And TrueType Font

> I've got a truetype font and i need to output a
> .dvi/.ps file using that font. How do i do it?

If you are using a Unix/Linux system, there is a shell-script available which will do pretty much all of the work for you: see http://lehman.virtualave.net/files/ttf2tex.tar.gz. There is good documentation with the script which explains what needs to be done to install TrueType fonts — you may want to read it even if you can't use the script. Essentially the same method (though done manually) is described at http://www.radamir.com/tex/

Note that there are two (at least) methods of using TTF's with TeX. You can convert the TTF's to Postscript Type 1 fonts, and then install and use them as you would any other Type1 font. This is the method described by the document in the /info/truetype (IIRC) directory of CTAN. The problem with this is that there is always a loss of quality in the translation --- some fonts I have tried converting this way end up looking downright nasty.

Much better (and this is how the linked documents above do it) is to use the program ttf2pk — which employs the FreeType library, available for all platforms from CTAN (and, if you run Linux, it's probably already part of your system) — which creates pk files `on the fly' directly from the .ttf file, when they are needed in the document. TTF files can also be embedded directly into a PDF document, and PDFTeX can do it; the explanations are given at the links above.

Robert

> > TTF files can also be embedded directly into a PDF document, and
> > PDFTeX can do it; the explanations are given at the links above.
>
> Do they appear scalable or as bitmaps?