The following script is based on the guide Using TrueType fonts with teTEX and dvips by Harald Harders.
Do not run this script! Copy and paste parts into a root terminal after carefully editing it.
Hopefully it is fairly clear what to do:
ttf2pt1
section to make the appropriate LaTeX fonts.
You need to work out the correct(ish) LaTeX names for the fonts.
This seems not to work for .TTF
files from Windows.
#!/bin/bash #C O N F I G fullName=Optima texName=lop texmf=/usr/share/texmf-texlive # S C R I P T # Convert ttf to LaTeX # Use fondu to extract the dfont to separate ttf s ../fondu/fondu Optima.dfont # the a flag includes vital things like ligatures. ../ttf2pt1/ttf2pt1 -a -e OptimaRegular.ttf lopr8a # pfa ../ttf2pt1/ttf2pt1 -a -b OptimaRegular.ttf lopr8a # pfb ../ttf2pt1/ttf2pt1 -a -e OptimaItalic.ttf lopri8a # pfa ../ttf2pt1/ttf2pt1 -a -b OptimaItalic.ttf lopri8a # pfb ../ttf2pt1/ttf2pt1 -a -e OptimaBold.ttf lopb8a # pfa ../ttf2pt1/ttf2pt1 -a -b OptimaBold.ttf lopb8a # pfb ../ttf2pt1/ttf2pt1 -a -e OptimaBoldItalic.ttf lopbi8a # pfa ../ttf2pt1/ttf2pt1 -a -b OptimaBoldItalic.ttf lopbi8a # pfb ../ttf2pt1/ttf2pt1 -a -e OptimaExtraBlack.ttf lopx8a # pfa ../ttf2pt1/ttf2pt1 -a -b OptimaExtraBlack.ttf lopx8a # pfb echo "Now running tex `kpsewhich fontinst.sty`" echo "At the * prompt enter \latinfamily{$texName}{}\bye" tex `kpsewhich fontinst.sty` for a in *.pl; do pltotf $a; done for a in *.vpl; do vptovf $a; done rm *.pl *.mtx *.vpl # move the needed files mkdir -p $texmf/fonts/{type1,vf,tfm,afm}/linotype/$fullName mv *.pfa $texmf/fonts/type1/linotype/$fullName mv *.pfb $texmf/fonts/type1/linotype/$fullName mv *.vf $texmf/fonts/vf/linotype/$fullName mv *.tfm $texmf/fonts/tfm/linotype/$fullName mv *.fd $texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/ sudo find $texmf/ -user rwb -exec chown root:root {} \; # M A P S mkdir -p $texmf/fonts/map/dvips/$fullName touch $texmf/fonts/map/dvips/$fullName/$texName.map # add to this file: # lopr8r Optima-Regular "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc <lopr8a.pfb # lopri8r Optima-Italic "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc <lopri8a.pfb # lopb8r Gill-Bold "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc <lopb8a.pfb # lopbi8r Optima-BoldItalic "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc <lopbi8a.pfb # lopx8r Optima-ExtraBlack "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc <lopx8a.pfb mkdir -p $texmf/dvips/$fullName touch $texmf/dvips/$fullName/config.$texName # add to this file: # o # p +lop.map touch /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10local.cfg # add # Map /sw/share/texmf-local/dvips/config/gillsans.map update-updmap updmap-sys texhash