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In article <SIMON.92Aug7125709@liasg1.epfl.ch>, simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen) writes:
> In article <ANIK.92Aug6161807@lyra.crhc.uiuc.edu> anik@crhc.uiuc.edu
> (Sadun Anik) writes:
> 
>      A correction on my previous posting. There is *NO* ATM for Unix
>    boxes. I am sorry for the error. However there is an X package (I
>    don't know the name) which does rasterise Type 1 fonts. We have
>    that package to use Type 1 fonts in Ghostview.
> 
> I think this is still not quite correct.
> 
> Ghostview uses Ghostscript to render PostScript(TM).  Ghostscript
> includes its own code to render Type 1 fonts, so no support from X is
> necessary.
> 
> On the other hand, there is in fact a contributed Type 1 renderer for
> the X11R5 MIT Sample Server, which, according to my limited
> understanding of ATM, provides most of the functionality of ATM under
> X.  On the X11R5 tapes, it can be found under contrib/fonts/lib/font.
> It is quite easy to install if you follow the instructions in
> .../font/Type1/README.  Make sure to get the latest patched version
> because the version on the tape has some bugs that prevent it from
> rendering fonts with unusual encodings.
> 
> Now with the Type 1 renderer built into the MIT X11R5 server (or the
> X11R5 font server) you can use Type 1 fonts from *all* applications
> that can request fonts from the X server.  [Even without the Type 1
> renderer, you can use scalable Bitstream Speedo format fonts with the
> X11R5 server.]  The font naming scheme of X (XLFD for X Logical Font
> Description conventions) has been enhanced in R5 to support scalable
> fonts.
> 
> Unfortunately very few of the programs that could make use of scalable
> fonts know how to request them from an X server that supports them.
> Ghostscript for example still does its own Type 1 font rendering even
> on an X server that already supports Type 1 fonts.  The same is true
> for TeX previewers -- these should have methods ask the X server for
> scalable fonts, which could make previewing TeX documents with
> non-Metafont fonts much easier.  Even for Computer Modern fonts it
> would often make sense to buy Type 1 versions that could be used by
> the X11R5 server as well as PostScript(TM) printers.  The bitmap (PK)
> versions of the fonts would become completely unnecessary for many
> sites.
> 
> I would really like to see more programs that can make use of the
> font scaling technology which is available in X11R5 *for free*.
> DVI and PostScript(TM) previewers are prime candidates for this.
> -- 
> Simon.