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["Riccardo Ferrari" <address@hidden>]

> Thank you. I found also another solution. I set Edit -> Preferences ->
> Printer -> Font type -> True Type. Doing so I was able to output
> a PDF with
> Type1 fonts embedded. But:
>
> 1) If you use any font but generic Roman, you get only Type3
> (bitmap) output
> 2) Accented vowels ("a", "o" and so on) and other very common symbols are
> rendered with Type3 fonts.
>
> Should it help figuring it out, I use cygwin and italian Windows XP.
>
> After having read the post "TTF in tm" I made some True Type
> fonts available
> to TeXmacs and tried to use them, but the PDF output always uses Type3
> fonts.
>
> Is it a current issue of TeXmacs or do I have to configure something else?
>
> Thank you to everybody.
>

I think that I have figured it out. To have Type1 embedded in PDF output you
must:

1) Use a Type 1 font (obvious) with all the glyphs you need.
2) Have the encodind file .enc for that font
3) Have TeXmacs supporting that font

So, now it is easy to explain TeXmacs behaviour:

The roman fonts (cmXX.pfb) supplied with tetex does not include accented
vowels and other very common symbols, so you get them as Type 3 anyway. Then
TeXmacs is supplied with .enc files for only a few fonts (for example
Roman).

I downloaded CM-SUPER type1 font package from CTAN tex archives, and I think
that using it will fix a lot of these issues, but I am not a programmer and
does not know how to modify TeXmacs to use additional fonts.

How may this task be carried out?

Thank you to everybody

R. Ferrari