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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, David Allouche wrote:

> On Thursday 14 February 2002 13:18, Dung TaQuang wrote:
> 
> > you can replace Type3 cmr with the Type 1 Variant
> 
> Please, can you give us a clue (or a pointer to documentation) on how to do 
> it?

When I wrote the converter three years ago, I just compiled a very
short LaTeX document and looked at the generated document.
The TeXmacs->Postscript converter mimicks the way LaTeX does it.

Now that pdf has become more standard, it would be worth it
to write a direct TeXmacs->pdf converter. I do not have time
at the moment to do this, but it should be too hard for
a volunteer to write such a program: you may modify
the file src/Window/PsDevice/printer.gen.cc in such a way
that it generates pdf output instead of postscript output
(the code in printer.gen.cc should be rather self-explanary,
but you may of course ask me for additional help).
If you can make this work, I will rename the file as
src/Window/PsDevice/pdf.gen.cc and make the necessary
other modifications. At a second stage, we might add
special support for hyperlinks and other typical pdf stuff.

-Joris-