Bug#143147: dvips uses type 3 fonts by default
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> schrieb:
> From: frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)
> Subject: Bug#143147: dvips uses type 3 fonts by default
> Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 16:26:47 +0100
>
>> > I was going to report this as a bug myself. Tetex-base still uses type
>> > 3 fonts by default as of tetex-base 2.0.2-5.1.
>>
>> Thank you for reminding us of this bug - it's not good to not react on a
>> bug report for such a long time.
>
> Is this irrelevant with Bug#77530 ?
Yes, this is connected with Bug 77530. The difference to me is that
- in Bug #143147, neither the original submitter nor Jason have said
_which_ type1 fonts they want to be used. If they want bluesky, it's
just the same as #77530; if not, it's something different.
- in Bug #77530 the request was to use the bluesky fonts. However, these
are only available in old OT1 encoding AFAIK. Therefore they cannot be
used with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, which many people want: If their
languages (french, spanish, german, polish, czech...) contain accented
latin letters, hyphenation of these words is impossible without, and
thus impossible with bluesky fonts.
Both problems can be solved once the cm-super fonts and/or the lm fonts
get into tetex, or into Debian as separate Packages, because these fonts
can be used with T1 encoding.
Only one question will remain: Although for pdf generation and for many
other applications, type1 fonts are preferable, Metafont fonts give the
best printed output if dvips is configured for a particular printer
resolution - at least in the opinion of many people, including Brian,
the last contributor to #77530.
We should at least ask the user, or give him an easy way to switch the
settings. By the way, is it possible to configure tetex in a way that
latex uses bitmap fonts, while pdflatex uses type1?
Bye, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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