Re: pfb2t1c and cm-super
Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mit, 14 Sep 2005, Ralf Stubner wrote:
>> Another possibility, which goes way beyond Debian packaging but
>> sounds interesting anyway, would be to add a mktexpfb (or extend
>> mktexpk) such that pfb files can be created from the compressed t1c
>> files at run time, just as mf/tfm/pk/... files are created now.
>
> Long long long term. I guess this is not easily added to all the
> programs requiring the pfb files.
Do they really need to know that? I thought dvips/pdftex/... just ask
the kpse-system for the location of the font file. And if kpse doesn't
find it but has a rule to produce it from some other source, it does so.
At least that is my understanding of how mktex{mf,tfm,pk} work ...
The really long term change would be actual support for this font format
in dvips/pdftex/... If I understood it correctly, the this t1c format is
allowed in (recent enough) versions of PDF and PS.
> And then, we want them integrated
> into X/gnome/fontconfig, so forget it ;-)
Yes, but not all the different design sizes. And that's not because some
of them are extremly uggly, but because most applications (and users)
can't properly deal with different design sizes. See fo example the
lmodern package, which does only register the 10pt design sizes.
cheerio
ralf
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