Subject: Re: Printing with True Type Fonts - a possible solution
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 21:49:45 CDT
At 9:41 PM -0400 10/23/00, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
>The TeX system converts fonts to embedded bitmap fonts when printing
>through postscript.
Blech!!
The use of Type 3 fonts by TeX is a long standing reason why
many professional publishers have wanted to shoot TeX in the head.
>Couldn't AbiWord do something similar?
It could, but it would be better to do the right thing and
convert them to Type 42 and insert that into the Postscript stream.
LDR
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