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Bug#250216: More about TrueType support of dvips



On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:29:09AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
> 
> > I'm not sure and have not enough time to test Type42 fonts
> > at present so if someone has confirmed that dvips didn't 
> > support Type42 fonts then I suspect it might be good to report 
> > this to the upstream.
> 
> 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.
dvips can handle type 42 fonts. It just cannot subset the font.
I've written a program to install type 1 and tt fonts for TeX/LaTeX/pdftex.
It uses ttftot42 to convert ttf to type 42 and then just proceeds as
with type 1 fonts.

  Uwe
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