TT Fonts in PDFTeX

TT Fonts in PDFTeX

[Michal Kvasnicka]

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?

Many thanks
Michal Kvasnicka

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Re: TT Fonts in PDFTeX

[Hans Hagen]

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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