TTF Fonts in Latex on LINUX

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2013-08
  • Questioner

    I couldn't find much help on google. Can anyone suggest me some link?

    • Answers
  • Rup

    Try googling tex truetype - there's plenty of hits. The top one looks fairly promising

    http://www.radamir.com/tex/ttf-tex.htm

    although I've never done this myself.

  • sstevenson

    Try using XeTeX/XeLaTeX rather than plain TeX/LaTeX or pdfTeX/pdfLaTeX. XeTeX handles truetype and opentype fonts transparently, no need to go through any hassles:

    http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=xetex_linux


    • Related Question

    Installing Microsoft ttf fonts on Ubuntu
  • therefromhere

    I want to install a Microsoft Vista TTF font (lets say Consolas), on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).

    How do I go about doing that?


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  • Diago

    This article explains how to install the Microsoft fonts on Ubuntu step by step. It's part of the Universe repository.

    This article explain how to install the Vista fonts which includes Consolas on Ubuntu. You need to extract the fonts from the Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer.

  • therefromhere

    If you've got a Windows machine handy (IANAL but I think you need a Vista licence in order to legally use the Consolas font), copy the file somewhere convenient.

    Then in a terminal:

    sudo cp *.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts
cd /usr/local/share/fonts
sudo chown root:root *.ttf
sudo fc-cache
  • Kirill

    Check out this script.

    winetricks is a quick and dirty script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries...