How to figure out font file from font name
Christian Stapfer
PDF file contains the following fonts:
SFSS0900, SFSX1728, SFRM1000, SFTI1000, SFRM1095
and SFBX1095.
I would like to know to what actual font files these rather
terse names happen to refer to. How can I figure that out?
(I cannot find any font files with these names in my own
TeX font tree, but that is perhaps simply because I do not,
at present, have these particular fonts installed on my
system).
Many thanks in advance for any ideas,
Christian
Christian Stapfer
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> Acrobat Reader tells me that a certain (PdfTeX generated) PDF file
> contains the following fonts:
>
> SFSS0900, SFSX1728, SFRM1000, SFTI1000, SFRM1095
> and SFBX1095.
>
> I would like to know to what actual font files these rather
> terse names happen to refer to. How can I figure that out?
In this particular case I have found that those font names
refer to fonts from the cm-super package, but I found this
purely by chance.
Maybe the remaining question is how one would do it
without requiring any luck, that is, in a *systematic* way.
Bob Tennent
Look at psfonts.map, which you can find by doing
$ kpsewhich psfonts.map
Bob T.
Christian Stapfer
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Oh, thank you very much. Maybe I should have known: it is
clear evidence of the user friendliness of tex that even simpletons
like myself can get a long way without knowing anything
as clever as that ;-)
Robin Fairbairns
> Acrobat Reader tells me that a certain (PdfTeX generated) PDF file
> contains the following fonts:
>
> SFSS0900, SFSX1728, SFRM1000, SFTI1000, SFRM1095
> and SFBX1095.
>
> I would like to know to what actual font files these rather
> terse names happen to refer to. How can I figure that out?
search on ctan? (FILES.byname has, for example:
2001/10/24 | 21085 | fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/afm/sfrm1000.afm.gz
2008/07/09 | 138258 | fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/pfb/sfrm1000.pfb
easy for me, since i have a ctan site on my lan, but all the ctan hubs
provide a search function that will return that information)
once you've found that they're cm-super, you can look that up in the
ctan catalogue; it will tell you that they're type 1 versions of the
extended computer modern "ec" font set.
> (I cannot find any font files with these names in my own
> TeX font tree, but that is perhaps simply because I do not,
> at present, have these particular fonts installed on my system).
the complete set is rather big, so it's quite possible that whoever
bundled your distribution decided not to bother with them. (i have a
full tex live install, and do have them, but to first order never use
them. the latin modern fonts perform a very similar function, but with
a much smaller disc footprint.)
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
Christian Stapfer
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> "Christian Stapfer" <nob...@nowhere.nil> writes:
>
>> Acrobat Reader tells me that a certain (PdfTeX generated) PDF file
>> contains the following fonts:
>>
>> SFSS0900, SFSX1728, SFRM1000, SFTI1000, SFRM1095
>> and SFBX1095.
>>
>> I would like to know to what actual font files these rather
>> terse names happen to refer to. How can I figure that out?
>
> search on ctan? (FILES.byname has, for example:
>
> 2001/10/24 | 21085 | fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/afm/sfrm1000.afm.gz
> 2008/07/09 | 138258 | fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/pfb/sfrm1000.pfb
>
> easy for me, since i have a ctan site on my lan, but all the ctan hubs
> provide a search function that will return that information)
Thank you very much.
> once you've found that they're cm-super, you can look that up in the
> ctan catalogue; it will tell you that they're type 1 versions of the
> extended computer modern "ec" font set.
>
>> (I cannot find any font files with these names in my own
>> TeX font tree, but that is perhaps simply because I do not,
>> at present, have these particular fonts installed on my system).
>
> the complete set is rather big, so it's quite possible that whoever
> bundled your distribution decided not to bother with them. (i have a
> full tex live install, and do have them, but to first order never use
> them. the latin modern fonts perform a very similar function, but with
> a much smaller disc footprint.)
Actually, that's what I thought when I found out what cm-super seems
to be, but I did not dare to say so openly in this forum for fear of
offending somebody...
Unfortunately, the math exercise sheets that I am trying to translate
from PDF to XAML in order to be able to paste them as vector graphics
into a shared whiteboard still uses cm-super fonts.
In order to do that translation without having to convert individual
glyphs to outlines (which would blow up the size of the resulting
XAML by a factor of 10 at least) requires my translator to know exactly
what the corresponding font file happens to be.
Thanks and best regards,
Christian