using latex fonts with gimp

Peter Jay Salzman

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Mar 29, 2002, 10:59:00 AM3/29/02

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did a search on google and it turned up null.

i really like the font i get with \mathcal{}. i'd like to be able to
use it in the gimp for some eps drawings i made using gimp.

how can i use latex fonts with the gimp? gimp doesn't seem to see any
latex fonts.

pete

Wald

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Mar 29, 2002, 11:24:24 AM3/29/02

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Use the psfrag package.

Wald

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Donald Arseneau

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Mar 29, 2002, 10:33:56 PM3/29/02

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Peter Jay Salzman <p...@belial.ucdavis.edu> writes:

> how can i use latex fonts with the gimp? gimp doesn't seem to see any
> latex fonts.

Grab ttf versions of the fonts you want, install them where
your x-fonts server can see them.

Donald Arseneau as...@triumf.ca

Peter Jay Salzman

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Mar 30, 2002, 11:27:07 AM3/30/02

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i think you misunderstood the question (or i misunderstood the answer).

i'd like for the fonts to be available to the x-server for all
applications to use.

pete

Peter Jay Salzman

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Mar 30, 2002, 11:33:51 AM3/30/02

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hi don,

thanks for the reply. i've seen lots of references to using TTF fonts
in latex, but none for latex fonts as TTF files.

can you give an URL for TTF font downloads?

or is there a way i can use metafont to convert latex fonts to TTF?

pete

Bob Tennent

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Mar 30, 2002, 2:03:45 PM3/30/02

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On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:59:00 +0000 (UTC), Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

> i really like the font i get with \mathcal{}. i'd like to be able to
> use it in the gimp for some eps drawings i made using gimp.
>
> how can i use latex fonts with the gimp? gimp doesn't seem to see any
> latex fonts.

Those glyphs are in cmsy10, which is a symbol font. But in principle you can
find the relevant .pfb file and put that directory into the font path after
setting up suitable fonts.scale and fonts.dir files. On my tetex-based RedHat
system, the directory is

/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm

and the font path is set in

/etc/X11/fs/config

Bob T.

Bob Tennent

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Mar 30, 2002, 2:10:33 PM3/30/02

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On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:33:51 +0000 (UTC), Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

> thanks for the reply. i've seen lots of references to using TTF fonts
> in latex, but none for latex fonts as TTF files.

The "latex fonts" terminology you use is muddying the waters. The default font
family in LaTeX is Computer Modern; is that what you mean by "latex fonts"?
There are type1 and ttf versions of Computer Modern fonts available. Either
could be used with X applications if you made them available to the font
server.

Bob T.

Donald Arseneau

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Mar 31, 2002, 4:32:33 AM3/31/02

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Peter Jay Salzman <p...@belial.ucdavis.edu> writes:

> or is there a way i can use metafont to convert latex fonts to TTF?

No. You can find ttf versions of computer-modern fonts on
the truetex web site (or kinch homepage) Use google to find.

I find the Gimp much too slow when using a resolution high enough
to support computer modern fonts (I imagine photoshop is equally slow).

Donald Arseneau as...@triumf.ca