amun@ellis.uchicago.edu (james frederick amundson) (12/17/90)
I have a dream... In this dream, I am using OzTeX on my Macintosh. I view and print at 72, 144, 300, even 1200 dpi. Suddenly I worry. All of those Computer Modern fonts must be taking up most of my smallish hard disk! No, I find, they don't take up very much room at all. They are Type 1 PostScript fonts which ATM is kindly scaling for me. Oh glorious day! Is this there any reasonable hope of making my dream a reality? It seems that there must be others who share this dream with me. Here, as I see it, are the obstacles that lie in my way: 1) I need to get PostScipt versions of the Computer Modern fonts. There is a utility to convert Metafont fonts to PostScript. Is there any chance some kind soul will run this program and make the results available somewhere. I would guess that converting the program to run on the Mac would be a non-trivial exercise. (Although one I would consider undertaking, if necessary.) 2) How do I make a PostScript font file created on another system into a Mac PostScript file? 3) I assume that the output from the Metafont to PostScript utility will be a Type 3 font. Does anyone out there have both the utility to convert Type 3 fonts to Type 1 and an interest in doing it? I would really appreciate any help anyone has to offer. (This includes help with problems I haven't considered.) If I ever get this to work, I will happily make the results available to anyone else who is interested. Thanks in advance. --Jim Amundson amun@midway.uchicago.edu
simon@cs.ualberta.ca (Simon Tortike) (12/18/90)
Blue Sky Research (the TeXtures people) sell an Adobe Type 1 version of
Computer Modern for about US$200. I use them with TeXtures and have
stopped using my bit-mapped sets, and am quite happy with the LaserWriter
results.
Regards,
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