FONTOOLS

This package provides tools to simplify the use of OpenType fonts with pdftex.

By far the most important program in this bundle is autoinst:

• autoinst

a wrapper script around Eddie Kohler's LCDF TypeTools.
Autoinst aims to automate the installation of OpenType fonts in LaTeX
by calling the LCDF TypeTools (with the correct options) for all fonts
you wish to install, and generating the necessary .fd and .sty files.

In addition, this bundle contains a few other, less important utilities:

• afm2afm

re-encode .afm files

• ot2kpx

extract kerning pairs from OpenType fonts

• splitttc

split an OpenType Collection file (ttc or otc) into individual fonts

Prerequisites

Perl

The Fontools are written in Perl; any remotely recent version should work. Perl is usually installed on Linux and Unix systems; for Windows, try ActivePerl or Strawberry Perl.

LCDF TypeTools and T1Utils

Of course, Autoinst needs the LCDF TypeTools and T1Utils (available from <www.lcdf.org/type>, and also on CTAN and as part of TeXLive); these should be installed in a directory on your PATH.

Kpathsea

Automatically installing the fonts into a suitable TEXMF tree (as Autoinst does by default) requires a TeX-installation that uses the kpathsea library; with TeX distributions that implement their own directory searching (such as MiKTeX), Autoinst will complain that it cannot find the kpsewhich program and install all generated files into subdirectories of the current directory.

If you use such a TeX distribution, either move these files to their destinations by hand, or use the -target command line option (please see the manual for more information).

Installation

When installing manually, the encoding files in the share directory should be moved to a "standard" location where otftotfm can find them. What this location is depends on your TeX installation; in TeXLive, it should be $TEXMFLOCAL/fonts/enc/dvips/fontools or, if you don't have write permissions in $TEXMFLOCAL, $TEXMFHOME/fonts/enc/dvips/fontools.

The scripts in the bin directory should be placed in a directory on your PATH (or else you have to call them with their full path name).

Of course, when using a package manager (such as tlmgr) to do the installation, all files will automatically be put in the right location.

LICENSE & COPYRIGHT

This software is copyright (C) 2005-2025 Marc Penninga. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence; see the file LICENSE for the license conditions.

DISCLAIMER

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.