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bitmapped
fonts generated by rendering metafont sources directly. Due to differences
between printers, it was necessary to prepare bitmaps specifically for
each type of printer as well as for each resolution. PostScript
printers can use resolution and device independent fonts to produce
bitmaps that are tuned to the printer's characteristics.
PostScript supports two main types of fonts:
The following announcment is from Blue Sky Research:
We are also delighted to announce that we are preparing to release the complete set of Computer Modern PostScript fonts into the public domain. We are currently collaborating with the American Mathematical Society, Y & Y, Inc, and a consortium of scientific societies and publishing houses to make possible the release of these fonts to the world wide scientific community. This consortium is also working together towards the release into the public domain, of the AMS PostScript font set. The American Mathematical Society has agreed to coordinate the public availability of both sets of fonts which will be distributed via the FTP and WWW Internet servers of Blue Sky, Y & Y, The American Mathematical Society and the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN). We anticipate that the CMPS fonts will be available to the public before the end of February. The AMS font set is slated for release in the third quarter of 1997.
For typical TeX article, the size of the document is a small fraction (10--100k) of the combined size (1--2M) of the associated Type 1 font files. For such documents, it is important to minimize unnecessary copying of the fonts, both to reduce processing time and to conserve disk space.
.pfa
or .pfb
)
in a suitable directory.
FontMap
file. On systems such as
unix where the case of filenames is important, aliases should be
created so that both upper- and lower-case names (e.g,
CMR10
and cmr10
are recognized.
-I
flag).
The format of the FontMap file is described in the user documentation
provided with ghostscript. Map file templates suitable for
editing to use with ghostscript (FontMap
fragment) are
included with the Bakoma fonts in the ``etc
'' subdirectory.