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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label getbitmap</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Acquiring bitmap fonts</h3>
-<p/>When CTAN was young, most people would start using TeX
-with a 300 dots-per-inch (dpi) laser printer, and sets of Computer
-Modern bitmap fonts for this resolution are available on CTAN.
-(There are separate sets for write-black and write-white printers, as
-well as sets at 120 dpi and 240 dpi.)
-<p/>Over the years, there have been regular requests that CTAN should hold
-a wider range of resolutions, but they were resisted for two reasons:
-<ul>
-<li> The need to decide which printers to generate fonts for. The
- broad-brush approach taken for 300 dpi printers was (more or less)
- justified back then, given the dominance of certain printer
- &#8216;engines&#8217;, but nowadays one could not make any such assumption.
-<li> Given the above, justifying the space taken up by a huge array
- of bitmap fonts.
-</ul>
-Fortunately, (La)TeX distribution technology has put a stop to these
-arguments: most (if not all) current distributions generate bitmap
-fonts as needed, and cache them for later re-use. The impatient
-user, who is determined that all bitmap fonts should be created once
-and for all, may be supported by scripts such as <i>allcm</i>
-(distributed with TeX Live, at least; otherwise such a
-person should consult &#8220;<a href="FAQ-useMF.html">the use of Metafont</a>)&#8221;.
-<p/>If your output is to a PostScript-capable device, or if your output is
-destined to be converted to PDF, you should switch to
-using Type 1 versions of the CM fonts. Two free
-sets are available; the older (<i>bakoma</i>) is
-somewhat less well produced than the <i>bluesky</i> fonts, which were
-originally professionally produced and sold, but were then released
-for general public use by their originators Y&#38;Y and Bluesky Research,
-in association with the AMS and other scientific publishers
-(they are nowadays available under the SIL&#8217;s Open Fonts Licence). The
-two sets contain slightly different ranges of fonts, but you are
-advised to use the <i>bluesky</i> set except when <i>bakoma</i>
-is for some reason absolutely unavoidable. In recent years, several
-other &#8216;Metafont&#8217; fonts have been converted to Type 1 format; it&#8217;s
-uncommon ever to need to generate bitmap fonts for any purpose other
-than previewing (see
-<a href="FAQ-PSpreview.html">&#8220;previewing documents with Type 1 fonts&#8221;</a>),
-if even then.
-<p/>More modern fonts may be used in place of the Computer Modern set. The
-<a href="FAQ-ECfonts.html">EC fonts</a> and the
-<a href="FAQ-uselmfonts.html">Latin Modern fonts</a> are both close relatives with
-wider ranges of glyphs to offer.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>BaKoMa fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma.zip">fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/bakoma-fonts.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>Bluesky fonts</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of
- <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/amsfonts.zip">fonts/amsfonts</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/amsfonts/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/amsfonts.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>CM fonts (write-black printers)</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/cm/pk/pk300.zip">fonts/cm/pk/pk300.zip</a>
-<dt><tt><i>CM fonts (write-white printers)</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/cm/pk/pk300w.zip">fonts/cm/pk/pk300w.zip</a>
-<dt><tt><i>EC fonts (Type 1 format)</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super.zip">fonts/ps-type1/cm-super</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/cm-super.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>Latin Modern fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/lm.zip">fonts/lm</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/lm/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/lm.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-
-<p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=getbitmap">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=getbitmap</a>
-</body>