Good and Bad Fonts

Equation Composer/Document Composer contains a built-in database of characters useful for math typesetting and fonts that contain them. The fonts and font families are in the database and are known to work well in EPS:

Euclid fonts

Mathematical Pi fonts

Mathematica fonts

Math fonts

Lucida New Math fonts

Lucida Bright Math fonts

Lucida Sans Unicode

WP Math fonts

cm (TeX) fonts

msam and msbm (AMS fonts)

Fences

In addition, all PostScript Type 1 fonts and most OpenType versions of PostScript fonts can be used. For these fonts, however, you may need to provide Equation Composer/Document Composer with detailed information about the encoding and characters available in these fonts in a FontInfo.ini file. See The FontInfo.ini File for more information.

By contrast, TrueType fonts of the variety known as CID fonts will not work with the current version of Equation Composer/Document Composer. These include most large fonts for Asian languages. The most significant example of a CID font that cannot be used is the shareware Code2000 font.

In general, the easiest way to determine whether a TrueType font is compatible with Equation Composer/Document Composer is to simply conduct an experiment. List it in your font configuration file, create an equation with a custom style explicitly setting it as the font, and try it. If it works for any characters, the font is compatible. If Equation Composer/Document Composer doesn't seem to be able to find characters that are known to be present in the font, but it can find some characters, use a FontInfo.ini file to provide detailed information about the encoding and characters available. See The FontInfo.ini File for more information.