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From: simon@alberta.uucp (Simon Tortike)
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Subject: Re: TeXtures question (Bitmapped fonts and PostScript fonts)
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Date: 5 Sep 90 23:05:52 GMT
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In article <27878@netnews.upenn.edu> hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) writes:
**** questions about CM fonts in PostScript....
... and then
>In article <0093AE22.A6D58A80@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> jprice@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) writes:
>>Hi all:
 .... some answers ....
>
>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.

How about reclaiming 15 Mbytes from your bitmapped fonts (I presume you are
talking about the Blue Sky release)?  If you buy the Suitcase II utility from
Software Supply, a little program called Font Harmony comes with it.  It
compresses fonts for use with the system, all within the same suitcase
file (Font/DA Mover file).  Run your Blue Sky fonts through it and leave the
`harmonized' fonts in your TeX fonts folder where TeXtures would normally
find them.  I did this months ago on a suggestion from Doug Henderson of
Blue Sky.  The fonts now occupy a puny 8 Mbytes or so.  I have noticed
no difference in speed when TeXtures access the fonts (on my Mac IIx), from
before when they were unchanged.

Incidently, I have the Blue Sky beta release of the (Type 3) Adobe CM 
fonts, and the LaserWriter resolution is not as bad as some people have
indicated.

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