Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: cm fonts and postscript typesetting Message-ID: Date: 25 Jan 91 09:57:42 GMT References: <51149@cornell.UUCP> Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 35 In-reply-to: vavasis@afi.cs.cornell.edu's message of 24 Jan 91 18:41:05 GMT In article <51149@cornell.UUCP> vavasis@afi.cs.cornell.edu (Stephen Vavasis) writes: "pk" files for cm fonts at 1270 d.p.i. I received several responses that these files are huge (someone told me 27M per font) and therefore could not be shipped across the net. garbage, I am afraid. My entire pk1270 directory is 7 megabytes and includes most of the CM family and a few others bits and bobs dvips/dvi2ps downloads the fonts for laserwriters. Actually, the usual way is to find a Linotronic 300 typesetter with the CM fonts already really? I haven't done it much, but I just a PostScript file with all the fonts onboard and have experienced no problems. (a) Use only native postscript fonts. All the TeX math symbols would somehow have to be recoded into Adobe Symbol. Has anyone done this? forget it, there are too many symbols missing. send the bitmaps of the maths fonts - they are not that big (b) Download the CM fonts in outline rather than bitmap form. In this case, the size of the fonts files wouldn't change with resolution. Has anyone tried this? lots of people. it works. you can get the bitmaps in public domain or for cash from Blue Sky. The former have difficulties, I understand. The problem is that the outline fonts are also huge! if you are looking into saving transmission time or disk space, it don't signify much (IMHO) sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)