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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-textrace.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-textrace.html deleted file mode 100644 index 129c1fe5838..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-textrace.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -<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> |