CTAN has a new package: Winfonts v1.0
Date: January 19, 2006 2:15:25 PM CET
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make
its way to your favorite mirror.
Thank you, Paul, for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: Winfonts v1.0
Author's name: Paul Pichaureau
Location on CTAN: /fonts/winfonts
Summary description: Support to the Windows core fonts
License type: gpl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
This package provide all the files needed to use the standard Windows fonts in T1 encoding. The fonts supported are: Arial Franklin Gothic Tahoma Comic Sans Georgia Times Courier New Palatino Linotype Verdana And the dingbats fonts Wingding Webdings All these fonts are distributed with Windows XP. This package is especially suited for Miktex v2.4 (or higher) running on Microsoft Windows XP. It should work with other version of Windows.
See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/winfonts . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This package provide all the files needed to use the standard Windows fonts in T1 encoding. The fonts supported are: Arial Franklin Gothic Tahoma Comic Sans Georgia Times Courier New Palatino Linotype Verdana And the dingbats fonts Wingding Webdings All these fonts are distributed with Windows XP. This package is especially suited for Miktex v2.4 (or higher) running on Microsoft Windows XP. It should work with other version of Windows.
See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/winfonts . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Winfonts – Use fonts distributed with Windows XP
The bundle provides the files necessary to use the TrueType fonts Arial, Comic Sans, Courier New, Franklin Gothic, Georgia, Palatino Linotype, Tahoma, Times and Verdana as text fonts in T1 encoding. It also provides the means to use the fonts Wingding and Webdings as symbol fonts.
All these fonts are distributed with Windows XP; it is possible to use them directly with pdfTeX. The MiKTeX previewer yap will also use the fonts if they are called up in a DVI file; however, there is no provision for creating PostScript files that use the fonts.
| Package | Winfonts |
| Version | 1.1 |
| Copyright | 2005 Paul Pichaureau for the MathDesign Project |
| Maintainer | Paul Pichaureau |