From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3385 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Christopher Tipper" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Lucida Bright fonts (was Re: Context equivalent to \kern-1pt) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:16:37 -0000 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <002501c053d6$80779040$2b5a883e@chris> References: <20001118112053.4680F2317E@client44-3.kabela.oprit.rug.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394120 16575 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:28:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Original-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3385 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3385 > > Maarten Wisse > > > > P.S. Just a note which might be interesting for ConTeXt users. Hans > > uses Lucida fonts quite frequently, but they are not free. Now, in > > XFree86 4.0, the new version of Windows which is used on Linux > > distributions, Y&Y has freely provided a font called Lucidux which is > > a clone of Lucida. Make tfm and vf out of that, and you have at least > > Lucida, Lucida Bright and Lucida Sans. Nice for presentations for > > instance. Just change the presentation style file to Lucidux and it's > > fixed. > > The Type1 versions of the Lucida fonts come with StarOffice 5.2, which > is free. > > Siep I've taken about 8 minutes looking at this issue with StarOffice 5.2 on windows, and it's not quite true. Certainly when I distill documents, Lucida comes out in native Type 1 in the output pdf's, but further investigation suggests that they start life as TrueType .ttf files, which of course lack ligatures and proper font-hinting. From what I can gather, StarOffice relies heavily on the JRE, which seems to have a bunch of classes to convert TrueType to Type1 "on-the-fly". Maybe somebody could correct me on this? Maybe different on Unices? Christopher