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In article <scs.713638382@hela.iti.org> scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:

   We've been looking around the net for Computer Modern PostScript
   fonts.  There are a number of variations on a theme, which boil down to
   having a separate postscript font for every point size and variant of
   CM.  Many megabytes to download and burns up lots of vm.  Has anyone
   got a freely redistributable set of size-independant cm*.ps and cm*.afm
   files?  Failing that, is there a commercial package available?

You can have the complete set of 75 Computer Blue Sky Research Modern fonts
in Adobe Type 1 form from Y&Y  For the PC, they come in PFB + PFM (+ AFM)
format and the outline fonts take less than 2 Megabyte (instead of a complex
directory hierarchy that takes more than 6.5 Megabyte for a minimal set of
PK bitmap fonts).  For Unix/Next they come in PFA + AFM format, which takes
a bit more.

On the PC you can avoid `burning up VM' if you use DVIPSONE, which uses
partial font downloading on Type 1 fonts (the only program of any form to do
so).  Where most DVI to PS processors generate something like a 480kbyte
file for a one page TeX job with math (9 - 10 fonts say), DVIPSONE produces
something more like 80 - 90 kbyte.  This means you won't crash your printer
with limited VM.

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Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA