Bug#250216: dvips do not support True Type -fonts
On Fri, 21 May 2004, +17:57:26 EEST (UTC +0300),
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> pressed some keys:
> On 21.05.04 Juhapekka Tolvanen (juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi) wrote:
> > Using TrueType fonts in (La)TeX is not as good as it could be:
> > -True-Type fonts must be converted to Type 1 -format and in that
> > process some of its quality may be lost. First example that comes
> > to my mind is Bitstream Vera -fonts in CTAN (they are under name
> > bera).
> > It is possible to use True Type-fonts in pdf(La)TeX, of course, but
> > what I want is a possibility to use those font under normal
> > (La)TeX, too. And in normal (La)TeX it must be done via dvips. I do
> > not want to use proprietary software, like TrueTeX, for that.
> Does http://www.radamir.com/tex/ttf-tex.htm not contain what you
> want?
I don't think so:
"This is sufficient for generating DVI file, but to view or print it,
there should be a raster (pk) font. MiKTeX will attempt to generate it
automatically with new utility: ttf2pk. For successful generation ttf2pk
should find both TrueType font and encoding file. It happens that ttf2pk
can find ttf files, if they are installed and are in a system fonts
directory, and it looks for encoding files in a directory
c:\texmf\pdftex\base\ (among others)."
In the other words: In that process True Type-fonts are embedded as
bitmaps to final PostScript-file. Am I right?
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