Bug#250216: More about TrueType support of dvips
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> schrieb:
> From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
> Subject: Bug#250216: More about TrueType support of dvips
> Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:29:09 +0200
>
>> a "grep -i type.*42" over the dvipsk sources in tetex-beta_2.96.1 gives
>> only (probably false positive) hits in testdata/*pdb.
>>
>> So it seems this is not yet possible.
>
> Might be so but there is a statement as follows in
> http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/type42.html
>
> A Type 42 font is a postscript font that wraps
> around a TrueType font.
>
> so I have a little hope that dvips could handle it as
> normal postscript font yet. But it might be time to
> forward this to the upstream.
Yes, I implied that they cannot be used as normal postscript fonts - but
any support for the type 42 wrapper should turn up somewhere in the
sources. This is what I wanted to check. Will you submit it to upstream?
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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