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Subject: Re: mf2ps
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In article <521@spam.ua.oz> lhume@spam.ua.oz (Leigh Hume) writes:
|I've not heard of mf2ps before. Does it do a metafont .gf or .pk to postscript
|conversion? If so how good is it and where can I get it by ftp or whatever
|means.  I've been told this conversion is possible and guessing that the 
|results will take up considerably less disk space than even the pk form.

A close reading of the article and attention to the comparison chart at the
end indicates that file size of the output of mf2ps is disappointingly large.
This seems to be a consequence of using "too many" Bezier splines to fit 
the outline of the letterforms [my own hypothesis]. 

By comparison, the Blue Sky fonts are 1/10th the file size.

|What type of Adobe font does it produce type 1 or 3. 

Even though mf2ps produces Type 3 fonts, there is nothing standing in
the way of casting the output as a Type 1 font, with attendent
advantages. Volunteers?

|Blue Sky, the Textures people seem to be working on a type 1 adobe
|postscript versions of the CM fonts.

BSR's CM/PS family now stands at 40+ fonts out of 75. They are also engaged
in converting other mf-generated fonts that are not CM.