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Re: why no, e.g., mf2ps?

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From: Michael DeCorte
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 15:49
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BRIEFLY.  MF output bitimages period.  Although MF and PostScript are
similar in that they generate strokes they are different.  One of the
more interesting differences is that MF is SLOW, a couple of seconds
per character.

There is work being done that converts an MF file to a PS file but I
am not certain of the current status.  An article about one of the
projects is in the newest TUGboat or Conference proceedings but I
haven't read it yet.

Finally, although you may dissagree, it is probably better to not use
all sorts of non-standard font sizes even if you have them available.
Two reasons 

1) other sites may not have those sizes and they will have
to edit the .tex or .dvi file that you send them (pretend they use dvi
to epson)

2) (This is arrogant. I know it but it is true.  Don't flame me as I
won't read it) Most people don't know anything about page layout,
color use, font use etc (I only know a little).  The result is that
when people start being creative the resulting paper looks amateurish
or worse is hard to read.

--

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