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I recently installed dvips, and it seems to work very well.  The
manual mentions that PostScript fonts can be used, via virtual
fonts.  Can someone explain to me exactly what virtual fonts are and
what advantages there are to doing it this way rather than just
specifying a mapping between the TeX fonts and PostScript fonts, so
that, for example, when the DVI file says to use cmr10, dvips
generates PostScript to switch to Times-Roman scaled to 10 point?

The version of TeX we're running announces itself with "This is TeX,
C Version 3.14t3" - will this version support virtual fonts?

On a related note, I think I understand what the various font files
TeX uses are - tfm just contain information on the character sizes
etc, gf, pk and pxl are different forms of character bitmap files.
Is this correct?

Thanks
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