Re: [Texmacs-dev] Type1 / Truetype fonts in 1.0.3.2-1

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Hi,

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Marciano Siniscalchi wrote:
> I have just upgraded to TeXmacs-1.0.3-2-1. Unless I am doing something
> wrong, I can no longer export to PDF using Type 1 fonts. I *did* select
> TrueType fonts in Edit|Preferences|Printer|Fonts (this preference was
> not retained from my previous version of TeXmacs, 1.0.3). I also tried
> to export to PS, but there is no difference. Just for fun, I also tried
> to select EC and CM fonts, but again there is no difference: Type 3 (=
> ugly bitmap) fonts are used in the PDF or PS file.
>
> This seems to be a problem with 1.0.3-2-1 only: the fonts in 1.0.3 were
> fine, with a couple of exceptions: blackboard bold fonts and double
> quotes. Actually, the problem with blackboard bold  is that TeXmacs uses
> the bbm fonts, which contain bb versions of lowercase letters, but are
> not available in Type1 format. Don't know about the quotes.

You are right; I forgot to check this :^(
I fixed this in the CVS version, so it will be OK in the next release.

Thanks for your feedback, Joris