Hi Peter, > At first glance, I would be *very* skeptical of including any kind of > converted fonts without some serious QA on the fonts after > conversion. > > By serious, I mean testing several different with commercial RIPS with > many different documents, as well as having someone with detailed > knowledge of fonts looking over each font carefully in fontforge.
That is exactly the reason why I asked for real life experience. As you wrote, scribus will winnow out crummy fonts. Maybe this can be sripted somehow: first convert TeX fonts to Type1, then check with scribus? Just an idea. > The lack of good free fonts in the OSS world is a tough one. With respect to Type 1/TTF/OTF your statement is true, but the supply of TeX fonts is quite rich. In case they could be converted into *reliable* Type 1 fonts, we had a huge repository of excellent fonts, including a huge amount of glyphs per font. Christoph
