Computer Modern PostScript Fonts
(Adobe Type 1 format)
2001/06/06
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The PostScript Type 1 implementation of the Computer Modern fonts produced by
and previously distributed by Blue Sky Research and Y&Y, Inc. are now freely
available for general use. This has been accomplished through the cooperation
of a consortium of scientific publishers with Blue Sky Research and Y&Y.
Members of this consortium include:
Elsevier Science
IBM Corporation
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Springer-Verlag
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
In order to assure the authenticity of these fonts, copyright will be held
by the American Mathematical Society. This is not meant to restrict in any
way the legitimate use of the fonts, such as (but not limited to) electronic
distribution of documents containing these fonts, inclusion of these fonts
into other public domain or commercial font collections or computer
applications, use of the outline data to create derivative fonts and/or
faces, etc. However, the AMS does require that the AMS copyright notice be
removed from any derivative versions of the fonts which have been altered in
any way. In addition, to ensure the fidelity of TeX documents using Computer
Modern fonts, Professor Donald Knuth, creator of the Computer Modern faces,
has requested that any alterations which yield different font metrics be
given a different name.
The AMS does not provide technical support or installation assistance
beyond any installation instructions included in this file. Installation
and use of these fonts may require some technical expertise. Review this
README file in its entirety before undertaking an installation.
The fonts are available in Macintosh and PFB (binary Type 1) outline
formats. Users requiring the fonts in PFA form should convert them with the
aid of one of the following tools, available from CTAN:
- fonts/utilities/ps2mf/pfb2pfa
- fonts/utilities/ps2pk/ps2pk15/misc/pfb2pfa
- systems/msdos/4alltex/diskp1/pfb2pfa.zip
The canonical version of the Computer Modern PostScript Fonts is located on
the AMS server which can be reached either by FTP or via the Web:
ftp ftp.ams.org in /pub/tex/psfonts/cm
http://www.ams.org/tex/type1-fonts.html
These fonts are also available on the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)
in fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky.
This distribution does not contain the TFM files that are necessary to use
the fonts with TeX; the TFM files can be obtained from CTAN, in fonts/cm/tfm.
The file "cmsample.tex" which is included in this distribution includes
samples of all of the fonts in the collection. Once you have installed the
fonts, you may typeset this file in Plain TeX to test your font installation.
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Installation Instructions for Unix
The CM fonts in Adobe Type 1 format have exactly the same metrics as
corresponding bitmapped CM fonts, hence the same TFM files are used by TeX.
TeX concerns itself only with metric information --- which is contained
entirely in the TFM file. The same DVI file is used for CM fonts in Adobe
Type 1 format as for corresponding bitmapped CM fonts in PK format.
The DVI processor (previewer or printer driver), however, has to be able to
deal with fonts in Adobe Type 1 format (referred to as `PostScript' fonts by
some). How this works is a function of which DVI processor is being used.
Read the manual for your DVI processor(s), for example, XDVI, dvips.
AFM files have been provided in the event they are needed for a
particular application. It is assumed that application instructions
will indicate where these should be installed.
