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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?

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

Daniel Egeberg
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    @DanielEgberg: Could you please elucidate how I would install the tar.xz file? –  Sep 20 '13 at 11:14
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    @LePressentiment Use 7-zip to unzip it, there are .ttf files inside – Neil McGuigan Feb 05 '14 at 04:43
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    How do you install these fonts into Libreoffice? – Aaron McDaid Mar 30 '16 at 12:21
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    I downloaded this (onto a Mac) and used the installer XY.pkg that it came with. Then opened Adobe Illustrator. Not present. Any suggestions? – Joel Apr 24 '16 at 06:45
  • This repository seems to be not official (info says TrueType converted by Andrey V. Panov from TeX fonts). Therefore I ran into scaling issues when importing .WMF's with encoded above TrueType fonts in Inkscape. Please download official TrueType Computer Modern fonts here https://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/ttf/ which do work legitimately (thanks @godbyk). – Petr Stepanov Aug 26 '19 at 05:01
  • On a Debian based system (and maybe other Linuxes as well) it is recommendable to install these fonts from the repositories like suggested in the answer by @einpoklum. This also makes the fonts available to LibreOffice in a quite simple way. – Will Oct 02 '19 at 08:54
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Also, Latin Modern is available in OpenType format from GUST.

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    Latin Modern also provides all web font formats i.e. .woff, .eot, .svg, which can be found here: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/foundry/gust-e-foundry – icc97 Jun 23 '14 at 14:42
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They are available in TrueType and OpenType formats through the BaKoMa distribution.

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What I do is to use LaTeXiT to generate labels as outlined fonts and drag them into the illustrator image. This works for both equations and text, and it's completely consistent with the TeX typesetting in your normal LaTeX file.

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Also see these type 1 fonts by the AMS.

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On Debian-based systems (including Ubuntu, Mint and so on), OpenType versions of the Computer Modern fonts are available via the fonts-cmu packages. Typically you would be able to install this by running

[joeuser@myhost]$ sudo apt-get install fonts-cmu

in a shell session.

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Here are some details to get Daniel Egeberg's answer to work on MacOSX:

Once you download the fonts from http://sourceforge.net/projects/cm-unicode/, unzip and place the individual files (not the folder) in Library/Fonts. Once you restart illustrator, the font will show as "CMU Serif", not as "Computer Modern".

More details: https://www.adobe.com/products/type/install-instructions.html#macOS

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https://github.com/Firestar-Reimu/AMSFonts-OTF

Here is a OTF version converted by FontForge

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