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From: amun@ellis.uchicago.edu (james frederick amundson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: TeX Fonts, PostScript, and Macintoshes
Keywords: tex, fonts, postscript, macintosh, ATM
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.044418.27235@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 90 04:44:18 GMT
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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