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Article #1275Re: Font formats - help!
From: Thomas Wolff
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 13:23
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 13:23
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prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts) writes: > 6) I have the utility ALLTYPE, which will convert all my PostScript > fonts to TrueType. I'm thinking that I have had enough of all this > confusing mixing of formats, and would like to: > a) convert the ATM fonts for which I have the .pfm and .pfb files to > TrueType; > b) blow away ATM, since I am annoyed with Adobe over their poor tech > support anyway; and > ... > Is this plan plausible? Wise or unwise? My recommendation: it's unwise. Reason: I don't see real problems with type 1 (PostScript) fonts and ATM, there exist more documentation and manipulation software for type 1 fonts, and: anyone who thinks about converting type 1 fonts to truetype should be aware that 1. hints are rumored to get worse or lost during this transformation, 2. truetype fonts waste more than twice as much of precious disk space than equivalent type 1 fonts.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!wolff From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff) Subject: Re: Font formats - help! Message-ID: <DRG0WTD@math.fu-berlin.de> Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department) Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany References: <C03u1x.Lzu@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:23:52 GMT Lines: 19