[comp.text.tex] Using Postscript fonts with TeX

larry@Morgan.COM (Larry Rohrs) (05/21/91)

This is probably a frequently asked question, but here goes:

We have postscript printers with lots of nice fonts in them
(doesn't everyone?).  We would like to print out our documents in
say, Helvetica-Bold instead of ComputerModern.  We can easily
enough add a "\newfont {\xxx}{Helvetica-Bold}" to my LaTeX
document, but when dvi2ps gets hold of the dvi file, it substitutes
some TeX circle font.  How do I get Helvetica, or Courier, or
NewCenturySchlbk-Roman to come out at a given point size?

/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts contains the .gf files.

/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/pxl contains the .XXXpxl files.

/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/tfm contains the .tfm files for the
	  Postscript fonts.

Our fontdesc file is probably misconfigured, but here it is:

#
# Sample C-TeX font configuration file.
#
# N.B.: choose only one of `box' or `blank' TFM fonts.

# current directory always searched first
#	TYPE	SPEC	SLOP	PATH
font	gf	*	3	%f.%mgf
font	pxl	*	3	%f.%mpxl
font	pk	*	3	%f.%mpk
# this is not pretty
font	blank	*	1	i/%f.tfm
font	box	*	1	%f.tfm

#	TYPE	SPEC	SLOP	PATH
font	gf	*	3	/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/%f.%mgf
font	pxl	*	3	/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/pxl/%f.%mpxl
font	pk	*	3	/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/pk/%f.%mpk
# SLiTeX invisible fonts can be done with links:
font	blank	*	1	/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/tfm/%f.tfm
font	box	*	1	/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/tfm/%f.tfm

Thanks,
	Larry