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In article <1992Nov6.190949.15488@imax.imax.com> dave@imax.imax.COM (Dave Martindale) writes:

   As several people have pointed out, the default Times-Roman font looks so
   ugly because it is actually a vector outline produced from a raster font.

   May I humbly suggest that the default Fontmap be set up to alias Times-Roman
   (and other Times fonts) to the perfectly reasonable CharterBT-Roman fonts
   that are included with the distribution?  And further that the default
   Fontmap not contain any of the bitmap-origin fonts?  In my opinion, even the
   Ugly font looks considerably better than the grotesque "ptmr" fonts.

   This way, people installing Ghostscript for the first time will get
   good-looking output on their first try and they will be happy.
   At the moment, the first output they are likely to see is from one of
   the raster-based fonts, while will at least give them indigestion and
   may cause them to conclude that Ghostscript itself is sick.

There is only one problem with this approach. The font metrics for the
Charter font family is not the same as that of Times. This means that
eg people who use gs to view/print document produced with a DTP program
do NOT get the same result as they had on screen in the DTP program. 

The worst example of this I can think of is people who design
documents with justification. If they use the Charter fonts instead of
the Times fonts, the document will no longer be justified when
printed.

	   Dave Martindale

Kjetil Bernhard Thomassen
bernhard@pvv.unit.no