- From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: removing packages, pdf fonts
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:55:11 +0200 (MET DST)
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, David Allouche wrote:
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On Monday 01 April 2002 13:48, Adam Warner wrote:
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> It's going to be a non-trivial task translating all the Type 3 fonts to
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> Type 1 equivalents so they render nicely in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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> Someone (perhaps even myself) will one day achieve this. I am not aware
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> of anyone currently working on this but it has been discussed here.
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There have already been good work on this.
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- latexpdf generate perfectly AcrobatReader kosher PDF
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- there is a Python program around to convert pk (TeX) fonts to Type1
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www.cs.ruu.nl/~hanwen/pktrace/
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- I have been told that teTeX distributions included very good conversion
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tools (to be investigated).
As I have said before (see the mailing list archives), it is preferrable
and should not be hard to write a good native TeXmacs -> pdf converter.
We would highly appreciate a volunteer to do this work.
Some suggestions can be found in the archives and on the wiki.
<Joris>
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