Bug#250216: More about TrueType support of dvips
From: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi>
Subject: Bug#250216: More about TrueType support of dvips
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 01:57:25 +0300
> I found these WWW-pages about Type42-fonts and conversion from TrueType
> to Type42:
>
> http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/type42.html
> http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/printing.html
>
> I knew it: Type 42 is really a PostScript-wrapper over True Type-format.
> Hence, conversion from TrueType to Type 42 can be really losless. And
> maybe those Type 42-fonts can be embedded to PostScript-files.
Before investigating the above, I'd like to know why
you need PS output rather than PDF. In case PDF I believe
you can embed TrueType font with dvipdfm if you don't want
to use PDFTeX/LaTeX.
Regards, 2004-5-23(Sun)
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Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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