Subject: Re: Printing with True Type Fonts - a possible solution
From: Stuart D. Gathman (stuart@bmsi.com)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 10:53:35 CDT
Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>
> 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.
The standalone utilities I have seen to convert TTF -> pt1,pt3 can
convert many, but not all fonts. If AbiWord were able to reliably
convert TTF in vector format, then the code would also be useful as a
standalone utility.
Converting many TTF would be OK if there were an efficient test to
exclude fonts that can't be handled from the users font list.
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