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Re: Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy, msttcorefonts broken



On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:10:08AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
AT>> I wonder if we could share this problem with the TeX community.
AT>> Those people might have the same problem.  Perhaps some Metafont to
AT>> Truetype converter might do the trick??? Just an idea.
 MC> I've contacted some people, to see if anyone knows of any public
 MC> domain, high quality true type fonts. Also pfaedit seems like it
 MC> might be able to generate good truetype fonts, but it's hinting
 MC> code needs some work. 

Actually, I don't see why we should use TrueType fonts instead of Type1
fonts. There is a set of excellent Type1 fonts from URW included in
gsfonts package under GPL; there is an extension of these fonts with
Cyrillic glyphs by Valek Filippov (ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/README),
also under GPL, and soon to be included into gsfonts; Valek also said
that he successfully converted URW fonts to TrueType, using pfaedit btw.

Can someone explain what is the problem with switching to Type1
altogether?

-- 
Dmitry Borodaenko



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