> No.
>
> I looked into this some time ago (check the archives). My recollection,
> somewhat fuzzy, is that pdftex requires Postscript Type 2 fonts. There
> are no such versions of the MusiXTeX fonts. There was an aborted effort
> to create a general Metafont-to-Postscript font converter (mf2ps?) but it
> died before becoming useful. There are other ways to do it, but no one is
> stepping forward to do it for MusiXTeX. This is software that might be
> able to do it, but it's expensive. I identified someone who might have
> been convinced to do it, but he was put off both by the large number of
> MusiXTeX fonts, and by the lack of interest in the project on the part of
> the MusiXTeX developer.
>
> As I understand it, the real stumbling block here is making the postscript
> fonts. Whether to use pdftex or TeX=>dvi=>ps=>pdf, the last step via
> Acrobat distiller, is a secondary issue. Getting the postscript fonts
> seems to be a necessary condition for making a pdf that looks decent on
> screen, regardless of how you make the pdf. pdf's with bitmapped fonts do
> print out just fine. I don't know the program ps2pdf, but Acrobat
> distiller make very compact files, way smaller than the postscript, even
> with bitmapped fonts. The ONLY problem with them is that they look AWFUL
> on screen.
>
> --Don Simons
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronald en Yvonne [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 11:28 AM
> To: 'MusiXTeX mailing list'
> Subject: Do MusiXTeX and pdftex work together?
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm no TeXpert, so I simply tried the following without really knowing
> whether I was doing the right thing. First I made a postscript file from a
> musixtex document without problems. With ps2pdf I could make a pdf-file,
> but it was huge (22 MB compared to 600 kB postscript file). I think that
> is because the fonts are represented by bitmaps in the pdf-file, but I
> could be talking nonsense here. I hoped to get a nice and small pdf-file
> by using pdftex (under Linux) on my document. However, this produced the
> following error:
>
> (...)
> ) (A.tex bar 1 bar 1 bar 1 bar 1 bar 1 bar 1 bar 1 bar 1 bar 1 bar 1 bar 1
> [1
> ! Error: pdftex:
> Font musixspx not found in map files
> Exit 255
>
> Can anyone tell me wether there is an easy way to get pdftex working with
> MusiXTeX? Or am I doing something wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ronald Gelten
>
