FW: Type1 fonts

[Jeff Henrikson]

FYI: the free program "pfaedit" has a type 3 parser.  I haven't tried plugging 
Feta into it.

> The problem is
> rather difficult, btw.

The general problem is, of course, but have you bothered to read the feta type 
3 code?  There's nothing sophisticated in it and I'm
sure an experienced postscript hacker could cook up (at most) a simple 
recursive decent parser to do it, maybe with a little duct
tape.

Any such conversions will still be primitive compared to a "real" type 1 font 
for screen output because of lack of hinting.  Once
there was an outline conversion, hints could be added by an expert by hand, but 
that works against the "everything should have
source code" mentality.  IMHO not a huge deal.  And hints would be a definite 
improvement for a few symbols (accidentals come
immediatly to mind.)

BTW- I was wondering the other day how much nonlinear scaling behavior there is 
in feta.  (Ie, the thing that Computer Modern does
a lot but TrueType, Type 1, fonts can't.)  I don't know enough metafont to see 
for myself.


Jeff Henrikson



> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Han-Wen Nienhuys
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 3:02 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Type1 fonts
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> address@hidden writes:
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> > Furthermore, Syropulos said that
> > there are also people working on procedures based on metapost to
> > Type1. There seems to be a script around called mf2pt1 which does
> > this.
>
> Are there people working on that, do you know an URL? Google never
> heard of mf2pt1. The only tool I know of is MetaFog (part of TrueTeX ,
> http://www.truetex.com/), which is a proprietary package.  This
> program provides an exact mf to type-1 conversion.  The problem is
> rather difficult, btw.
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