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From: max@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Max Hailperin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeXtures question
Message-ID: <1990Aug8.221431.3922@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 8 Aug 90 22:14:31 GMT
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In article <27878@netnews.upenn.edu> hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas)
 writes:
>Are there any options other than waiting for Blue Sky to get their
>type 1 fonts out?  I really would like to reclaim the 23 megs of font
>space on my disk.

One easy option is just to trim down on your font set.  You say you use
LaTeX; I have a 2.4 Mb suitcase that has all the fonts that the normal
LaTeX lfonts configuration needs at all the sizes it needs, asuming 300
dots per inch.  Thus, unless you do things other than LaTeX, manually
load additional fonts, or are picky about the visual quality of your
screen previewing at other than 416%, you can cut your disk space by
nearly a factor of ten.  Note that you can't simultaneously use the
screen-size and printer-size fonts anyway, because of limitations in
the Mac font file format.  I'm not sure how much additional disk space
it would take if you could (or wanted two seperate suticases, one you
used when previewing, one when printing), but presumably no more than
another 2.4 Mb tops, so you'ld still be looking at a substantion savings.
I haven't bothered to put such a suitcase together because it doesn't
seem worth the suitcase-switching hassles just for high-quality 100%
previewing.  I either want a long view of the general page layout, in
which case scrunched fonts are ok, or I want to make sure every pixel
is in the right place in some small area, in which case the 416% previewing
is the right thing.