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- Path: sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!wolff
- From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
- Subject: Re: Font formats - help!
- Message-ID: <DRG0WTD@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <C03u1x.Lzu@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:23:52 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts) writes:
-
- > 6) I have the utility ALLTYPE, which will convert all my PostScript
- > fonts to TrueType. I'm thinking that I have had enough of all this
- > confusing mixing of formats, and would like to:
- > a) convert the ATM fonts for which I have the .pfm and .pfb files to
- > TrueType;
- > b) blow away ATM, since I am annoyed with Adobe over their poor tech
- > support anyway; and
- > ...
- > Is this plan plausible? Wise or unwise?
-
- My recommendation: it's unwise. Reason: I don't see real problems with
- type 1 (PostScript) fonts and ATM, there exist more documentation and
- manipulation software for type 1 fonts, and: anyone who thinks about
- converting type 1 fonts to truetype should be aware that
- 1. hints are rumored to get worse or lost during this transformation,
- 2. truetype fonts waste more than twice as much of precious disk space
- than equivalent type 1 fonts.
-