Do system font (TTF/OTF) forms of the Kepler Project fonts (kpfonts) exist?

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I have recently fallen in love with the kpfonts package. Whilst it looks great in both body text and TikZ pictures, my current issue is that I cannot create images in external programs containing this typeface and must resort to Pagella or similar (I don't appear to have Palatino).

I imagine that the fonts as defined in the kpfonts LaTeX package have lots of extra metrics information that would be lost in a TTF/OTF file, but do TTF and/or OTF versions of at least kp serif regular exist?

Keks Dose · Accepted Answer

You probably can create the OTF-files yourself. Get fontforge, open the *.pfb and whatever fontforge requires and try file/generate from the menu. Take care that you are allowed to write the new file into the same directory.

I did not try myself, but there is a chance it works.

Alexander

EDIT: It works in the way described above. Tried with one of the kpfonts.

Karl Karlsson · Answer

Find a way to install the original Type 1 fonts on your system. Probably, it's not complex.
As Keks Dose suggested, but using FontLab Studio or TransType. But they are commercial.

Sylphio · Answer

Since 2020-06-20, an experimental OTF implementation of kpfonts is available at CTAN as kpfonts-otf.

Do system font (TTF/OTF) forms of the Kepler Project fonts (kpfonts) exist?

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