=========================================================== URW A030 (Arial) font pack for LaTeX ============================================================ 2006-03-21 WalterSchmidt w-a-schmidt(at)gmx.net This directory provides a set of Postscript Type-1 fonts which URW has made available for free under the Aladdin Free Public License: font name: files: ------------------------------------- A030-Reg ua1r8a.pfb ua1r8a.pfm ua1r8a.afm A030-Bol ua1b8a.pfb ua1b8a.pfm ua1b8a.afm A030-Ita ua1ri8a.pfb ua1ri8a.pfm ua1ri8a.afm A030-BolIta ua1bi8a.pfb ua1bi8a.pfm ua1bi8a.afm The original distribution site of the font files is . The fonts are accompanied by the TeX font metrics, virtual fonts, font definition and font mapping files to use them with the LaTeX typesetting system on the PC or Un*x platform. The layout of the distribution and the related installation instructions suit recent, TDS-compliant TeX systems, particularly teTeX, MikTeX and VTeX/Free. Installation paths ------------------ The files of your TeX system are arranged in one or more tree structures, the so-called "texmf trees". The names and paths of the particular root directories of these trees vary between different TeX systems. In the following instructions the install paths are indicated in a form such as, for instance: /fonts/type1/... stands for the the actual name of the root directory of the texmf tree, where you want to install the files: teTeX and MikTeX require additional files to be installed in a particular "local" tree (rather than in the one where the default components of the TeX system reside). Its path must either be indicated in the documentation of the TeX system or you should have defined it yourself upon installation. With MikTeX, for instance, the root directory of the "local" texmf tree is usually "c:\localtexmf", so you would in fact have to substitute c:\localtexmf\fonts\type1\... for the path name in the above example. VTeX/Free, in contrast, has only one single texmf tree, whose root directory is normally "/usr/local/vtex/texmf" (on Linux) or "c:\texmf" (on OS/2). Note that paths are indicated in "Unix notation" (i.e., using slashes as directory separators), unless they are specific for Win or OS/2. Installing the Type1 font files ------------------------------- The Type1 font files ua1b8a.pfb ua1bi8a.pfb ua1r8a.pfb ua1ri8a.pfb are to be copied to the directory /fonts/type1/urw/arial and the corresponding .afm files should go into /fonts/afm/urw/arial Most likely, you will have to create these directories first. Feel free to use the fonts also with applications other than TeX! The related PFM files are provided for this purpose; move them to the same directory as the PFBs. Installing the TeX support files from the archive ua1.zip --------------------------------------------------------- Unpack the ZIP archive ua1.zip in the directory , i.e., in root directory of the TeX file tree, where you want to install the present collection. Thus, all files will end up in the appropriate directories. Updating the filename database ------------------------------ Many TeX systems require manual updating of a "filename database" after adding of new files. Please, consult the documentation of your TeX system! Configuring your TeX system --------------------------- The present distribution includes several font map files for the URW Arial fonts. You need to configure your TeX system so that an appropriate file will be used in fact. The required steps depend on the particular TeX system. Particular sets of instructions are provided below for the following systems: * MikTeX 2.4 and later * VTeX/Free 8 and later With other TeX systems such a tTeX/TeXLive, consult the related documentation how to install an additional font map file. The name of the map file to be used for Arial is "ua1.map". Two identical copies of this file reside in the directories /dvips/config and /fonts/map/dvips/ua1. * Configuring MikTeX 2.4+ Edit the file \miktex\config\updmap.cfg. (In case it does not yet exist, create it as a new file.) Add the line Map ua1.map and save the file; then execute the following commands in a command line window ("DOS shell"): initexmf -u updmap * Configuring VTeX/Free 8+ Make VTeX read the additional font mapping file ua1.ali. This is usually accomplished by putting an appropriate record into each of the configuration files /vtex/config/pdf.fm and /vtex/config/ps.fm Edit these files; in each file add "ua1.ali" to the TYPE1 section: TYPE1 { ... ua1.ali } Using the URW Arial fonts with LaTeX ---------------------------------------------- See the file arial.txt, which resides in the directory /doc/fonts/urw. Fontinst sources ---------------- The archive file ua1fnst.zip contains the Fontinst script and additional mtx files which were used to create the font metrics and virtual fonts for URW Arial. You need not install this material, if you just want to _use_ the fonts with TeX. License ------- Distribution and modification of the the URW Arial fonts are subject to the Aladdin Free Public License Copyright (c) 2000 by (URW)++ Design & Development The TeX font metrics, virtual fonts and font definition files for URW Arial i.e., the files in the archive ua1.zip, may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2003/12/01 or later. Copyright (c) 2006 Walter Schmidt == finis