installing truetype fonts in miktex

[Hendri Adriaens]

Hi,

what is the easiest way to install truetype fonts (eg verdana) in
miktex? I tried the winfonts package (not supported by miktex package
manager) so installed in manually. It didn't give any error, but the
font in the resulting pdf was not Verdana. I tried MTFI (miktex
truetype font installer) but it wasn't updated for a long time and
doesn't work unfortunately.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks already,
-Hendri.

[christophe...@tele2.fr]

In this page, I think you have what you look for

http://c.caignaert.free.fr/ttf-english.html

Christophe

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:54:49 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Hendri Adriaens:

> Hi,
>
> what is the easiest way to install truetype fonts (eg verdana) in
> miktex? I tried the winfonts package (not supported by miktex package
> manager) so installed in manually. It didn't give any error, but the
> font in the resulting pdf was not Verdana.

I don't see a reason why it shouldn't work. I moved all files to a
local root, update the fndb and run this document:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\pdfmapfile{+winfonts.map}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\fontfamily{verdana}\selectfont
abc \texteuro
\end{document}

It works fine, even TS1-encoding and the euro. There is even no need
to move the truetype to the texmf-tree. Miktex did find the fonts in
windows/fonts:

<C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/verdana.ttf>

> I tried MTFI (miktex
> truetype font installer) but it wasn't updated for a long time and
> doesn't work unfortunately.

Yes, this is known.

> Does anyone have a suggestion?
>

Apart from the way suggested by Christophe you can also convert the
fonts to type1 e.g. with fontforge and then use fontins
(->fontinstallationguide).

The easiest way to _use_ the fonts is with XeLaTeX. It should work
out of the box:

\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\setsansfont{Verdana}
\begin{document}
\sffamily abc €
\end{document}

--
Ulrike Fischer

[Hendri Adriaens]

Hi Ulrike, Christophe,

thanks a lot for the help. I didn't find your suggestions earlier. The
method of Ulrike (using winfonts) did work (reinstalled miktex to
clean earlier attempts) and is indeed very easy :)

Thanks again, best regards,
-Hendri.