From version 1.9.9 of LilyPond, the Type1 fonts are always built when you build LilyPond. If you don't have mftrace installed, you can still get the fonts using
make -C mf get-pfa

Note, all the instructions below are obsolete, see above!

Type1 fonts for LilyPond

In order to be able to create nice-looking PDF fonts of your scores, you need scalable so-called Type1 versions of the Feta fonts. These are included in all the precompiled distributions of Lilypond (RPMs, Debian packages, Cygwin packages and so on), but if you for some reason have compiled and installed Lilypond yourself and have problems building the Type1 fonts using mftrace, the font files can be downloaded from lilypond.org as described here.

  1. mkdir /tmp/newfonts
  2. cd /tmp/newfonts/
  3. For the latest stable release:
    run the command
    wget -l 1 -nd -r -A pfa,map http://lilypond.org/stable/mf/out/
    For the latest development release:
    run the command
    wget -l 1 -nd -r -A pfa,map http://lilypond.org/development/mf/out/
  4. mv *.pfa $LILYPONDSHARE/fonts/type1/
  5. mv *.map $LILYPONDSHARE/dvips/
  6. texhash
where $LILYPONDSHARE is /usr/share/lilypond/1.6.6/ or wherever the files are installed on your system.

See also the following email from the mailing lists if you are looking for fonts for older Lilypond versions.

Note, all the instructions below are obsolete, see above!

Here, you can find scalable so-called Type1 versions of the Feta fonts used in Lilypond. These fonts provide significantly improved readability when you view PDF versions of Lilypond scores on the screen. The Type1 fonts have been produced using pktrace. Since Lilypond 1.5.43, you can make the fonts yourself using make fpa-fonts assuming you have installed pktrace and friends. Since no additional fine tuning has been done, the quality may be slightly worse than the standard bitmapped fonts when you print the score on paper.

For Lilypond 1.5.43:
All the font files. Unpack in the directory <installation-dir>/share/lilypond/.
For Lilypond 1.4.x:
Send bug reports to bug-lilypond@gnu.org and general questions and comments to lilypond-user@gnu.org.
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Last modified: Tue Feb 3 17:09:10 CET 2004