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In <2bv94p$hb4@aggedor.rmit.OZ.AU> s914431@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Malcolm Herbert) writes:

>What I'd like to know is, is there a font set available for TeX that is
>the same as the standard fonts in a PS engine so that dvips doesn't have
>to include the font specification?  For example, is there Helvetica, or Times
>that TeX knows about, which is the same as the Helvetica or Times as specified
>in the guts of, say the Laserwriter?  For small, single page files, this
>change would reduce their size by as much as 70%, and more if you are
>using larger fonts, as they are bitmapped.

You can try to use standard Postscript fonts in Your document. With NFSS2
there comes a collection of files that should make this for You (psnfss).
I never tried this but I hope this work.

NFSS shoul be available on every good TeX site via ftp (or
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de).

Sven
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