Introduction

I'm growing to like LaTeX for document preparation. It's particularly nice for longer documents and academic work. Only problem is that installing new fonts is an obscure and pointlessly complex process. TTFI is a font installation script to help a bit.

OK, here are the disclaimers. TTFI is quick and dirty, it might work for you, it might not, it may install things wrongly, or break your installation completely. Be warned. I use teTeX and OpenBSD, your mileage with other setups may (and probably will) vary.

TTFI is released under the BSD licence. Reuse freely, no warranties.

How to use

Download ttfi, and place somewhere in your path. You should probably look at the directories/file locations at the top of the script and adjust to suit your installation.

Copy the font definition files (.afm, .pfb, .pfm) to an empty temporary directory. Move to that directory and run ttfi as a root or another user that can write into the LaTeX directory.

You'll need to enter the foundry name (e.g. adobe) and a short name for the font (e.g, galliard). If TTFI cannot work out the new names for the font files you'll have to enter them yourself for each file. You should read around on the font naming scheme.

After running, you can use the font by including \usepackage{shortname}.

Bugs