From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2519 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: TT Fonts in PDFTeX Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:06:55 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000821130655.010604f0@pop.wxs.nl> References: <3993C9D0.9C41A797@econ.muni.cz> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393308 9558 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:15:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:15:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Context Original-To: Michal Kvasnicka In-Reply-To: <3993C9D0.9C41A797@econ.muni.cz> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2519 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2519 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------