I was thinking about this tonight; I suspect that one can use TrueType
fonts (in Type 42 format) if the following restriction is obeyed:
the font is never ever subsetted
There might be a need to hack soemthing into dvips so that an
appropriate FontMatrix array and Metrics dictionary is written out.
Then, a new procedure (say, type42rf, instead of rf) is used to read
this information. The reason being is that Type 1 fonts use a
"standard" measure of 1000 units per 1 point, whereas TrueType fonts
use a "standard" measure of 2048 units per 1 point.
Tom Rokicki, what say you?
Tom
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Mr. Wang Lei writes:
> > Hi, I installed tetex on my RedHat/Sun Solaris and it works
> > well. Using dvips and type1 fonts get good quality PS files.
> > Now I have a problem, can dvips support truetype font?
>
> sadly, no. use pdftex, and then acrobat to generate a PS file...
>
> Sebastian
>
