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Here's what is going on... I'm new to InDesign and average on knowledge of fonts. I have a file I created in Illustrator using a font called Arial MT.I would like to use this same font (whatever it is) in InDesign, but it is not available in InDesign. The closest font I can come to in InDesign is a font called "Arial Rounded MT Bold".How come I can use "Arial MT" in Illustrator, but not have it available in InDesign? Does anyone know what the true name of Arial MT is? Illustrator info calls it:PostScript Name: ArialMT
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Windows Font Name: Arial MTThanks...
I don't know what directory Arial MT is stored in for Illustrator because I don't know the file name for it. I've already searched for a font called "arialmt" or "arial mt" and nothing has come up in the search.
arial
arial black
arial mt
arial narrow
arial rounded mt boldIn InDesign 2.0 the arial fonts that show up are all of those except for "Arial Mt".If I do a search for the "_A______.pfm" and the "_A______.pfb" fonts, I find them located in three separate directories:C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Resource\Font
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts\Reqrd\Base
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\PDFL\5.0\FontsI suppose if I removed Acrobat Reader 5.0, it should remove two of the three sets of files, (Reader 5.1 is also installed on my machine, possibly from the InDesign install).For Illustrator I also found a "ADOIF__.PFB" and "ADOIF__.PFM" in a C:\Program Files\Adobe\Illustrator 8.0\Required\Fonts directory.Maybe I should get ATM to help me manage all of the locations of these fonts?
The first time you use the package, you will need to register fonts with the extrafont database. This process will search your computer for fonts, register them with the database and convert the font metric information in the .ttf files into .afm equivalents, plus a number of other steps like linking to the .ttf files for the actual glyphs (the .afm files only contain the metrics or size and other metadata for the font, not the individual characters or glyphs, which only live in the .ttf files) to allow font embedding. To initiate this process, run
In addition, we need to tell the plot use a particular font family, in this case we use family = "Arial". The character value you pass family is one of the entries returned by fonts() (see above). Here is a call that will generate an EPS file of the KDE of the Old Faithful data
Notice that here I use the width = 6.83 (in inches) which corresponds to a 3-column figure in the PLOS One world. Other dimensions for figures can be found on the PLOS ONE Guidelines for Figure and Table Preparation.
This is useful if you want to visualise how the figure will look as you create it. However, it works using the system font provision (on Linux and MacOS X that means Pango), not via extrafont, so do read ?X11, ?windows, or ?quartz for details on how fonts are resolved there.
The extrafont package has a wrapper to the standard embedFonts() function in base R; embed_fonts(). This takes the path to the input EPS file, the path/filename for the outputted file with embedded fonts (this can be missing, in which case the input file is overwritten!), plus a format argument that you can usually ignore (see ?embedFonts for details), and and optional argument options. This options argument is very useful to pass along arguments to the ghostscript programme. On my system, the default ghostscript output device was set to either US Letter or A4 paper, so the EPS figure had a large amount of white space above and to the right of the figure. This needed addressing, obviously and for that I used the EPSCrop argument, which has to be given as you would include it if working with ghostscript directly, hence in the code below I pass -dEPSCrop to the option argument.
If you have any suggestions for improving these instructions let me know in the Comments; I should pass them along to PLOS ONE at some point so that can add them to their Guidelines for Figure and Table Preparation.