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Val

Reputation: 1822

Use custom TTF font in a PostScript file

I'm trying to write my own PostScript file manually and want to use a custom TTF font downloaded from the web but it's not using it - either uses some other font or doesn't display the text at all. I don't have problems with the fonts installed in the system.

The commands I used were different variations of:

/FontName /TheFontName def /TheFontName 20 selectfont (XXXXXXXXXXX) show

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2093

Answers (2)

Vipul Bhatt
Vipul Bhatt

Reputation: 1

You must convert ttf fonts to pfb and pfm format to use it in postscript. There are online tools available to convert ttf fonts to pfb and pfm format.

Upvotes: 0

KenS
KenS

Reputation: 31141

You can't use a TrueType font directly in PostScript, unlike PDF PostScript doesn't support TrueType.

In order to use a TrueType font you must first convert it into a type 42 font which PostScript does support.

Adobe Technical Note 5012 documents the type 42 format

Upvotes: 1

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