[texhax] TTF fonts

[Martin Heller]

Loeghmon T. Nejad skrev:
> Can someone please tell me if MS TTF fonts can be used as-is in
> Latex(Miktex), or they need some sort of conversion before they can be
> read by latex? Do you have the instructions as how to register ttf
> fonts with latex? Thank you very much.


It depends on what you want to do. Installing a ttf font for use 
with pdflatex is pretty easy if you are only interested in text 
fonts. If you want math support it becomes more involved.

There is a gui for installing ttf fonts in a MiKTeX setup:
<http://mtfi.sourceforge.net/>.

If you prefer to do it manually you can use this guide
<http://www.radamir.com/tex/ttf-tex.htm>

For the fonts coming with Windows most of the work is already done:
<http://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/winfonts/>.

For an overview of what is available in you installation check 
out the LaTeX Font Catalogue
<http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/>.

If you want to use TrueType fonts with the latex -> dvips -> 
ps2pdf route you need to do more work.