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diff --git a/fonts/cm/ps-type3/cmrps.README b/fonts/cm/ps-type3/cmrps.README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dbd0c1acd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/fonts/cm/ps-type3/cmrps.README @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +From: gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk +To: grunwald <grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu> +Cc: gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk +Subject: A bit of history for you! +Date: Sat Jun 2 23:05:54 GMT 1990 + +I don't know who ftp'd the cmr/ps files for you, but give them my thanks! +- I'm the person who generated them. I put them in the uk Aston tex archive +and announced them on uktex & texhax, hoping that someone in the states +would copy them to the clarkson? labrea? archive. I was just starting to +think no-one was using them :) + +Anyway, I'm writing because I'm fairly sure the readme file I wrote never +made it into the archive, so here's the info that should have gone with it. + +The program to convert the fonts from bitmaps to outlines was written by +Neil Raine at Acorn Computers in the UK. I hacked the TeX end of it; +reading gf files etc, and generating 3000dpi versions of the fonts to get +better rendition. + +The fonts are *experimental* - feel free to try them out to see what sort +of quality you can get. Our results were that on low-res lasers (300dpi etc) +the cut of the font was rather heavy - they look like the typical adobe +fonts - not thin & light like the cmr we know & love. On high-res devices +(anything from 1200 up to 2000dpi) They look just like pixel-versions of +cmr. Unfortunately many of the PS phototypesetters give up the ghost at +trying to cache as many outline fonts as an average document needs, whereas +they worked alright with bitmapped fonts. + +There is a tiny bug in the bitmap to outline conversion which you should +watch for; occasion characters (maybe 1 in 500 or more) have a spurious +little horizontal line sticking out of them. Since the font generation +took a weekend of 50 high-powered risc machines to run, I'm reluctant to +redo all these when the bug is fixed, so if anyone can report the font +and char position of any of these bugs, I'd be most greatful. + +(Oh - I forgot to explain in the previous para; the reason that the 300dpi +fonts are heavy is, i think, because postscript renders a single extra +level of pixels round outlines. At 300dpi this is noticable; at 2000 not) + +I hope you enjoy these fonts. If anyone is reading this and is thinking +'oh no, not again - don't they know that PS fonts don't scale properly', +you'll find when you avtually look at them that I've included all the +different design sizes (9, 10, 12pt etc.) - the outlines are only to be +magnified to get the effect of TeX's magsteps, not its point sizes. + +Share & Enjoy, + +Graham Toal <gtoal%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk> + |