Bug#250216: [tex-k] Plans about supporting TrueType/Type42 fonts in dvips?

2005-09-01 Thread Vladimir Volovich
PV == Paul Vojta writes: PV I have looked into supporting TrueType in xdvi. A key subsidiary PV issue that came up (and stopped it for me) was compatibility with PV ttf2tfm and ttf2pk. They come up with their own character PV encoding that basically (as I recall) chooses the lowest-numbered

Bug#250216: [tex-k] Plans about supporting TrueType/Type42 fonts in dvips?

2005-09-01 Thread Paul Vojta
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:51:51PM +0400, Vladimir Volovich wrote: PV == Paul Vojta writes: PV I have looked into supporting TrueType in xdvi. A key subsidiary PV issue that came up (and stopped it for me) was compatibility with PV ttf2tfm and ttf2pk. They come up with their own

Bug#250216: [tex-k] Plans about supporting TrueType/Type42 fonts in dvips?

2005-09-01 Thread Vladimir Volovich
PV == Paul Vojta writes: above you wrote I have looked into supporting TrueType in xdvi, which as far as i understand shall mean ability to render (using freetype library) glyphs directly from TrueType fonts, PV Correct (so far) and of course also selecting the needed glyphs of the

Bug#250216: [tex-k] Plans about supporting TrueType/Type42 fonts in dvips?

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Vojta
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 06:59:28PM +0200, Karl Berry wrote: are there any plans to enable dvips to include TrueType fonts in a Postscript file, by wrapping them up as Type42 fonts? I am not aware of anything along these lines. Tom? If there is some TrueType+TeX volunteer

Bug#250216: [tex-k] Plans about supporting TrueType/Type42 fonts in dvips?

2005-08-30 Thread James Cloos
Karl == Karl Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Karl Support for OpenType would probably be even more useful going Karl forward. Do you know if they be handled via Type42? Or some Karl other way? [Pre Scriptum: written for the archives and the CCed bugreport; not just for the people on the CC

Bug#250216: [tex-k] Plans about supporting TrueType/Type42 fonts in dvips?

2005-08-28 Thread Karl Berry
are there any plans to enable dvips to include TrueType fonts in a Postscript file, by wrapping them up as Type42 fonts? I am not aware of anything along these lines. Tom? If there is some TrueType+TeX volunteer interested in working on it, patches would be welcome, I'm sure. I also