CTAN package update: futurans v1.3

[CTAN Announcements]

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be
at your favorite mirror

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: futurans v1.3
Author's name: Boris Veytsman
Location on CTAN: /fonts/psfonts/adobe/futurans/
Summary description:  LaTeX Support For Futura Fonts From Adobe As Used 
  By No Starch Press
License type: bsd

Announcement text: 
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 LaTeX Support For Futura Fonts From Adobe As Used By No Starch Press

                       Version 1.3 2008/03/20

This package provides metric files and LaTeX support for Futura fonts
from Adobe.  It has everything you need to typeset in this font -
except the font itself, of course.

There are several versions of the fonts available, different by the
version year.  This package provides support for fonts as used by No
Starch Press, http://www.nostarch.com.  To prevent a clash with
support of a newer version by W. A. Schmidt, the fontname |pfv| is
used instead of the standard |pfu|.

INSTALLATION

First, you need to purchase the fonts themselves: the pfb files are
not included in the package.  If you got the fonts from No Starch
Press, do not rename the pfb files.  However, if there are uppercase
letters in your file names, downcase them.  If you obtained the fonts
from another source, rename the files according to the documentation
(futurans.pdf).

If your TeX system is TDS-compliant, install the files into
$TEXMF/fonts/type1/adobe/futurans. Then download
http://ctan.tug.org/install/fonts/psfonts/adobe/futurans.tds.zip and
unzip this file in $TEXMF.  Add +pfv.map to the configuration files of
dvips, pdftex and your dvi previewer.

Run updmap and texhash programs to update the configuration files and
file names database.

The included style futurans.sty makes your default Sans Serif family.


NOTE

The files were generated using fontinst 1.927.  

CHANGES

v1.1  Added light letterspaced, bold compressed and 
      heavy compressed fonts
      heavy compressed fonts

v1.2  Changed scales for letterspaced and compressed fonts

v1.3  Added medium, bold and heavy letterspaced fonts 


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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/adobe/futurans/
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/futurans
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .