I think, that the following could be of interest to participants in the previous discussions about ``bad'' PDF files produced by pdflatex.
-- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Give your heartache to him. (1Pt 5,7; Mt 11:28-30) ----- Forwarded message from Vladimir Volovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: CM-Super package released > From: Vladimir Volovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:38:49 +0400 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > > The CM-Super package could be freely downloaded from > ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/font-packs/cm-super/ > (see below for details). > > This is the first public release of these fonts, so we welcome > comments and bug reports. > > Best, > v. > > ========================================================================= > CM-Super font package > version 0.1 (September 18, 2001) > > Copyright (c) 2001 Vladimir Volovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > See the file PUBLIC (Aladdin Free Public License) for license conditions. > As a special exception, permission is granted to include these font > programs in a Postscript or PDF file that consists of a document that > contains text to be displayed or printed using these fonts, regardless > of the conditions or license applying to the document itself. > > The CM-super package contains type1 fonts converted from METAFONT > fonts and covers entire EC/TC and LH fonts (Computer Modern font > families). All european and cyrillic writings are covered. Each Type1 > font program contains ALL glyphs from the following encodings: T1, > TS1, T2A, T2B, T2C, X2, and also Adobe StandardEncoding (582 glyphs > per non-SC font and 465 glyphs per SC font), and could be reencoded to > any of these encodings using standard dvips or pdftex facilities (the > corresponding support files are also included). > > I.e., these type1 fonts could be used as an immediate replacement for > LaTeX's EC, TC, and LH fonts to create Postscript and PDF documents > with vector fonts (i.e. no changes to your LaTeX documents are > required to use these fonts once you have them installed). You could > also prepare EPS or PDF illustrations in your favorite applications > with texts written using these fonts, and then include them in your > LaTeX documents. These fonts could be used not only in TeX-related > applications, but also as all other Type1 text fonts, e.g. in Windows > (and you will be able to typeset multilingual texts using them). > > Font file names correspond to the scheme used in EC fonts, with the > first two letters "sf" ("super font") instead of "ec". > > E.g., sfrm1000.pfb contains all glyphs from: > ecrm1000, tcrm1000, larm1000, lbrm1000, lcrm1000, rxrm1000. > > Fonts were created with using textrace (based on autotrace and > Ghostscript), t1utils and a bunch of Perl scripts, and were optimized > and hinted using FontLab 3.1 provided by FontLab Ltd. The set of > UniqueID values was registered at Adobe. > > It appears that careless approach to FontLab's optimisation and > auto-hinting facilities could lead to loss of quality of the original > font (some glyph shapes could be broken), so we used the most precise > optimisation, and hope that optimised and hinted fonts are indeed > better than original traced fonts (also, they are significantly > smaller in size). So far, we did not find any bugs in optimized fonts. > > Note that a small number of (fortunately, rately used) fonts are not > included yet because of the bugs in EC font drivers which prevented > their generation. We plan to provide these missing fonts soon. > (Currently there are 376 Type1 font files here, of total 401.) > > The CM-Super package could be freely downloaded from > ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/font-packs/cm-super/ > (and soon from CTAN) > (see also ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/README for a list of mirrors) > The size of the entire package is about 54Mb. > > To install this package in teTeX or TeX Live systems, copy all type1 > fonts (*.pfb files) to .../texmf/fonts/type1/public/cm-super/ > directory and install the MAP (*.map) and ENC (*.enc) files to their > usual place (e.g. under .../texms/dvips/cm-super/), and instruct dvips > and pdftex to use these MAP files (e.g. using the "updmap" script). > Do not forget to update the texmf filename database (run mktexlsr). > > Although this package is provided AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY (as > explained in the file PUBLIC), we request your comments and bug > reports which should be sent to the email address given above. > > Happy TeXing! > > TODO: > > * provide AFM and INF files > * provide optimized but not hinted version (will be smaller)? > * include glyphs from TS1 encoding into SC fonts? (useful for non-TeX applications) > * add glyphs from T2D encoding > * add all other glyphs from LH fonts > * full support for unicode cyrillic codepage > * include glyphs from cbgreek ec-like fonts > * add CM Concrete family > ========================================================================= ----- End forwarded message -----
