Installing Open Type Fonts in MiKTeX

In what follows, I have used TEXMF and LOCALTEXMF to generically refer to the directories c:\texmf and c:\localtexmf, respectively, as this is what they are on my machine.

Go to Adobe's website and download an open type font. For the Sabon font, I went here: http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_1392.html
Once I downloaded the font and license files, I had the following font files:
```
	SabonLTStd-Roman.otf
	SabonLTStd-Italic.otf
	SabonLTStd-Bold.otf
	SabonLTStd-BoldItalic.otf
```
Go to http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/type/index.html and download the otftotfm and other LCDF utilities.
I wasn't able to get the automation (- a) option of otftotfm to work, so I opted for a manual approach. For this I placed the four .otf files together in the same directory as the binary/executable LCDF files. I also copied TEXMF\fonts\enc\dvips\fontname\texnansx.enc into this directory.

Next I ran four commands:

	otftotfm -fkern -fliga -e texnansx SabonLTStd-Roman.otf psbr8a
	otftotfm -fkern -fliga -e texnansx SabonLTStd-Italic.otf psbri8a
	otftotfm -fkern -fliga -e texnansx SabonLTStd-Bold.otf psbb8a
	otftotfm -fkern -fliga -e texnansx SabonLTStd-BoldItalic.otf psbbi8a

The first command produced output:

	I had to round some heights by 18.5000000 units.
	I had to round some depths by 2.0000000 units.
	cfftot1: glyph 'E': warning: complex flex hint replaced with curves
	cfftot1: (This Type 2 format font contains flex hints prohibited by Type 1.
	cfftot1: I've safely replaced them with ordinary curves.)
	psbr8a SabonLTStd-Roman "AutoEnc_pe3rdlbr2pgfwkjmgm3iyj626a ReEncodeFont" <[a_pe3rdl.enc 
as well as files:
	a_pe3rdl.enc
	SabonLTStd-Roman.pfb
	psbr8a.tfm

The other three commands produced similar output and the following files:
	SabonLTStd-Italic.pfb
	psbri8a.tfm
	SabonLTStd-Bold.pfb
	psbb8a.tfm
	SabonLTStd-BoldItalic.pfb
	psbbi8a.tfm


 The .pfb files I copied to the directory LOCALTEXMF\fonts\type1\adobe\sabon (here I had to create a few of
     the directories in this path).

The .tfm files I copied to the directory LOCALTEXMF\fonts\tfm\adobe\sabon

The file a_pe3rdl.enc I copied to the directory LOCALTEXMF\fonts\enc\dvips\adobe

 I then created the file LOCALTEXMF\tex\Sabon\LY1psb.fd with the following contents:
	\ProvidesFile{LY1psb.fd}[Adobe Sabon font definitions]
	\DeclareFontFamily{LY1}{psb}{}
	\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{psb}{m}{n}{ <-> psbr8a }{}
	\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{psb}{m}{it}{ <-> psbri8a }{}
	\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{psb}{b}{n}{ <-> psbb8a }{}
	\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{psb}{b}{it}{ <-> psbbi8a }{}

	\endinput


 I next created the file psb.map with the following contents (taken from the otftotfm output above):
	psbr8a SabonLTStd-Roman "AutoEnc_pe3rdlbr2pgfwkjmgm3iyj626a ReEncodeFont" <[a_pe3rdl.enc <SabonLTStd-Roman.pfb
	psbri8a SabonLTStd-Italic "AutoEnc_pe3rdlbr2pgfwkjmgm3iyj626a ReEncodeFont" <[a_pe3rdl.enc <SabonLTStd-Italic.pfb
	psbb8a SabonLTStd-Bold "AutoEnc_pe3rdlbr2pgfwkjmgm3iyj626a ReEncodeFont" <[a_pe3rdl.enc <SabonLTStd-Bold.pfb
	psbbi8a SabonLTStd-BoldItalic "AutoEnc_pe3rdlbr2pgfwkjmgm3iyj626a ReEncodeFont" <[a_pe3rdl.enc <SabonLTStd-BoldItalic.pfb

and put copies of this file in both of the following directories:
	LOCALTEXMF\dvips\config
	LOCALTEXMF\fonts\map\dvips\sabon


 In order to get the font to properly embed in PDF files generated via dvips and ps2pdf,
     I had to update the file 
     TEXMF\web2c\updpmap.cfg by adding the following at the bottom:

	# sabon
	Map psb.map

 I refreshed the MiKTeX file name database (which is done from MiKTeX).  I also did this:
	cd LOCALTEXFM
        initexmf --mkmaps


 In my LaTeX document(s), I can now use the font as follows:
	\usepackage[LY1]{fontenc}
	\newcommand{\sabon}{\usefont{LY1}{psb}{m}{n}}
	\newcommand{\sabonIt}{\usefont{LY1}{psb}{m}{it}}
	\newcommand{\sabonBold}{\usefont{LY1}{psb}{b}{n}}
	\newcommand{\sabonBoldIt}{\usefont{LY1}{psb}{b}{it}}

and
	{\sabon This is sabon}
	{\sabonIt This is italicised}
	{\sabonBold This is bold}
	{\sabonBoldItalic This is bold and italicised}

Last Modified: Friday, 11-May-2012 07:57:28 NDT