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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2009-05-22 23:51:44 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2009-05-22 23:51:44 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-textrace.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-textrace.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..129c1fe5838 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-textrace.html @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label textrace</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Making outline fonts from Metafont</h3> +<p/><i>TeXtrace</i>, originally developed by Péter Szabó, is a +bundle of Unix scripts that use Martin Weber’s freeware boundary +tracing package +<a href="http://autotrace.sourceforge.net"><i>autotrace</a></i> to +generate Type 1 outline fonts from Metafont bitmap +font outputs. The result is unlikely ever to be of the quality of +the commercially-produced Type 1 font, but there’s always the +<a href="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/"><i>FontForge</a></i> font +editor to tidy things. Whatever, there +remain fonts which many people find useful and which fail to attract +the paid experts, and auto-tracing is providing a useful service here. +Notable sets of +fonts generated using <i>TeXtrace</i> are Péter Szabó’s own +EC/TC font set <i>tt2001</i> and Vladimir Volovich’s +CM-Super set, which covers the EC, TC, and the +Cyrillic LH font sets (for details of both of which sets, see +<a href="FAQ-type1T1.html">“8-bit” type 1 fonts</a>). +<p/>Another system, which arrived slightly later, is +<a href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/mftrace/"><i>mftrace</a></i>: +this is a small <i>Python</i> program that does the same job. +<i>Mftrace</i> may use either <i>autotrace</i> (like +<i>TeXtrace</i>) or Peter Selinger’s +<a href="http://potrace.sourceforge.net"><i>potrace</a></i> to produce +the initial outlines to process. <i>Mftrace</i> is said to be +more flexible, and easier to use, than is <i>TeXtrace</i>, but both systems +are increasingly being used to provide Type 1 fonts to the public domain. +<p/>The <i>MetaType1</i> system aims to use Metafont font sources, by way +of MetaPost and a bunch of scripts and so on, to produce high-quality +Type 1 fonts. The first results, the +<a href="FAQ-type1T1.html"><i>Latin Modern</i> fonts</a>, are now +well-established, and a bunch of existing designs have been reworked +in MetaType1 format. +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>MetaType1</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/metatype1.zip">fonts/utilities/metatype1</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/metatype1.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/metatype1/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=textrace">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=textrace</a> +</body> |