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# Installing a PostScript printer built-in font

There is a "standard" set of fonts that has appeared in every PostScript printer since the second generation of the type. These fonts (8 families of four text fonts each, and three special-purpose fonts) are of course widely used, because of their simple availability. The set consists of :

- [Times](wpfr:Times_New_Roman) family (4 fonts),
- [Palatino](wpfr:Palatino) family (4 fonts),
- [New Century Schoolbook](wpfr:Century_Schoolbook) family (4 fonts),
- [Bookman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookman_(typeface)) family (4 fonts),
- [Helvetica](wpfr:Helvetica) family (4 fonts),
- [Avant Garde](wpfr:Avant_Garde_(police_d'écriture)>) (4 fonts),
- [Courier](wpfr:Courier_(police_d'écriture)) family (4 fonts),
- [Utopia](wp:Utopia_(typeface)) family (4 fonts),
- [Zapf Chancery](wp:Zapf_Chancery) (1 font),
- [Zapf Dingbats](wp:Zapf_Dingbats) (1 font),
- [Symbol](wp:Symbol_(typeface)) (1 font).

All these fonts are supported, for LaTeX users, by the <ctanpkg:psnfss> set of metrics and support files in the file `lw35nfss.zip` on CTAN. Almost any remotely modern TeX system will have some version of <ctanpkg:psnfss> installed, but users should note that the most recent version has much improved coverage of maths with `Times` (see package <ctanpkg:mathptmx) and with `Palatino` (see package <ctanpkg:mathpazo>, as well as a more reliable set of font metrics.

The archive `lw35nfss.zip` is laid out according to the TDS, so in principle, installation consists simply of "unzipping the file at the root of a `texmf` tree.

Documentation of the <ctanpkg:psnfss> bundle is provided in `psnfss2e.pdf` in the distribution.

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