[Tex/LaTex] find computer modern fonts for use in other programs, e.g. Adobe Illustrator

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For some complicated diagrams, I need to use something like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape, and would like to include nicely typeset labels. (I'm aware of post-processing solutions, such as pinlabel.) One way to do this is to use a closely-matching font, and then convert fonts to outlines. Better, however, would be to use Computer Modern directly in Illustrator.

Where can I find a Computer Modern font compatible with Adobe Illustrator?

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You can download them here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cm-unicode/

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[Tex/LaTex] Use case for Latin Modern Math (LM Math)

The LM Math fonts are available in OTF Math format. As such they are usable with unicode-math and ConTeXt Mk IV. So you can finally use LM when using Xe/LuaTeX + unicode-math or ConTeXt (as LM + STIX Math just looks horrible). Presumably they also added additional symbols as Unicode defines lots of math symbols that aren't available in the CM math fonts.

As I read the announcement, you can't use the fonts without an OTF capable TeX engine. So with pdflatex, you have to continue to use the old fonts anyway (see the comments for a qualification of this statement).

[Tex/LaTex] Vector fonts with UTF-8 support

I strongly suggest Latin Modern fonts instead of CM. See the post: Latin Modern vs cm-super?

If you also want to have UTF8 encoding mapping in the pdf file (for copy-pasting and accessibility) you can add some line to your preamble assuming you are using pdfTeX (pdfLaTeX).

The minimal code below I have prepared for another post show you how to do this:

\documentclass[]{article}

%PdfTeX settings for a correct UTF 8 Mapping
%------------------------------------------------------
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf    \input{glyphtounicode.tex}    %Part of modern distribution
      %%%\input{glyphtounicode-cmr.tex}     %Additionnal glyph: You must grab it from pdfx package
      \pdfgentounicode=1
\else  %Place here the settings for other compilator
\fi


%Encoding + cmap (to get proper UTF8 mapping)
%------------------------------------------------------
\usepackage{cmap}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}


%NB: CHANGE lmodern AND fourier TO SEE THE PROBLEM OF MISSING UNICODE CHARACTERS
%     You can see this on Acrobat Pro with acessibility checking or simply by copy-pasting the content.
%     Of course copy paste is not perfect in both case but it is better with lmodern
%------------------------------------------------------
\usepackage{lmodern}
%%\usepackage{fourier}


%AMS Math + UTF8 mapping of ams symbols
%------------------------------------------------------
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{amssymb} % I load it after Fourier else I have more incorrect utf8 mapping (with \geqslant for example)
%Correct UTF8 mapping for ams fonts
\ifdefined\pdffontattr% \ifdefined is part of the e-TeX extension, which is part of any modern LaTeX compiler. 
    \immediate\pdfobj stream file {umsa.cmap}
    {\usefont{U}{msa}{m}{n}\pdffontattr\font{/ToUnicode \the\pdflastobj\space 0 R}}
    \immediate\pdfobj stream file {umsb.cmap}
    {\usefont{U}{msb}{m}{n}\pdffontattr\font{/ToUnicode \the\pdflastobj\space 0 R}}
\fi


%Start document
%------------------------------------------------------
\begin{document}

All these examples work fine with Latin Modern but not with Fourier Font (and Palatino and maybe others).

\bigskip
Issue with mapsto : ${\mathcal F} : \boldsymbol{\eta} \in {\mathbb{R}}^{np}\ \mapsto {\mathcal F}\left(\boldsymbol{\eta} \right)\in \mathbb{R}$

\bigskip
Issue with sqrt : $\sqrt{X}$

\bigskip
Issue with parenthesis : $X \geqslant \left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^2$

\bigskip
Issue with sum : $\sum_{n=0}^\infty X^n$

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Use case for Latin Modern Math (LM Math)

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