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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, David Allouche wrote:

> On Monday 01 April 2002 13:48, Adam Warner wrote:
> > It's going to be a non-trivial task translating all the Type 3 fonts to
> > Type 1 equivalents so they render nicely in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
> > Someone (perhaps even myself) will one day achieve this. I am not aware
> > of anyone currently working on this but it has been discussed here.
> 
> There have already been good work on this.
> 
>  - latexpdf generate perfectly AcrobatReader kosher PDF
> 
>  - there is a Python program around to convert pk (TeX) fonts to Type1
>    www.cs.ruu.nl/~hanwen/pktrace/
> 
>  - I have been told that teTeX distributions included very good conversion 
> 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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