Re: Lucida Bright fonts (was Re: Context equivalent to \kern-1pt)

[siep.kroonenberg@wkap.nl]

On 21 Nov, Christopher Tipper wrote:
>> > 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

The Linux version comes with Type1 versions of the Lucida fonts.

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