Have you tried LuaTeX? If you use plain TeX (without requiring extra LaTeX files), you should only need the binary. LuaTeX is the successor of pdfTeX. Much imp

Have you tried LuaTeX? If you use plain TeX (without requiring extra LaTeX files), you should only need the binary. LuaTeX is the successor of pdfTeX. Much improved. And it can use your local .ttf/.otf/... font files out of the box. The install is very minimalistic and should not require more than downloading a binary and maybe a config file. http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/bin/luatex/linux-64/bin/ http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/bin/luatex/linux-6...