From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: Context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: TT Fonts in PDFTeX
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:06:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000821130655.010604f0@pop.wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3993C9D0.9C41A797@econ.muni.cz>
At 11:39 AM 8/11/00 +0200, Michal Kvasnicka wrote:
>Hello,
>
>still one more question. Let's say I have some fonts both in Type1 and
>in TrueType.
>(I really have.) I can prepare good .tfm metrics form .afm metrics.
>But what should I include to PDF, Type1 fonts or TrueType ones? Is the
>TrueType
>faster and smaller, or not? Is it printable on Unix (and postscript
>printers)?
>Are there some more bugs? Is it worth of rewriting font-maps?
Type 1 is probably supported better by viewers. True type fonts can be much
larges, which is an advantage for chinese and alike. In that case ttf is
more efficient.
Hans
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