Bug#250216: dvips do not support True Type -fonts
On Sat, 22 May 2004, +18:27:43 EEST (UTC +0300),
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> pressed some keys:
> From: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi>
> Subject: Bug#250216: dvips do not support True Type -fonts
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 18:43:02 +0300
> > On Fri, 21 May 2004, +17:57:26 EEST (UTC +0300),
> > Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> pressed some keys:
> > > 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)."
> Hmm, I'm very confused.
Hmm... looks a little bit confusing. It seems in MikTeX dvips uses
encoding files of pdfTeX. BTW I use teTeX under Debian GNU/Linux.
> I found the statement;
> As you can see, this time pdftex has found winfonts.map and
> embeded encodingg file T1-WGL4.enc and TrueType fonts times.ttf
> and timesbd.ttf into resulting PDF document.
> Is this not what you want? Anyway,
That is not what I want. pdfTeX already knows, how to embed TrueType
fonts to resulting PDF-file. You just need to create TeX font metrics
and font map. There is no need to convert that font to Type 1 at all.
> > > > 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 have an impression that the above your request is a bit
> ambiguous...
> To use TrueType fonts under (La)TeX should be fairy easy
> as the above URL showed and it is a quite another (or different)
> issue to use TrueType font for printing or previewing.
> Please elaborate your request if possible.
To be exact, I want those TrueType fonts embedded to PostScript file
that dvips created. And when embedding, I do not want them converted to
some bitmap-format. I want that they are embedded in scalable outline
format. They must be embedded as such or as wrapped to Type 42 -format.
Plain conversion from TrueType to Type 1 would lose some of that font's
quality.
> Basically it is possible to use TrueType font for printing
> and we Japanese users in fact use TrueType fonts to print
> Japanese characters in DVI files.
> In a sprit, it would be same strategy as of the above URL but
> in short we tell dvips that TrueType font "bar" is a printer
> resident font "foo" and dvips generates PS file, then we print
> generated PS through gs and gs replaces "foo" with TrueType
> font "bar" (this might be not so precise however).
What will happen, if you send such PostScript-file to some person who do
not have fonts "bar" or "foo" installed? How (s)he can print or view them?
That's what it's all about: You must embed those fonts to that
PostScript-file. If you embed them as bitmaps, they will look really
ugly when viewed with gv or other PostScript-viewer. I do not want
that.
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