Am Montag, 4. Juli 2005 01:18 schrieb PLinnell: > On Sunday 03 July 2005 21:55, Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
> > in search for fonts to be included in the Live CD, I thought > > converting TeX Metafonts might be a good idea as long as they could > > be converted into reliable Type 1 fonts. > > > > Has anybody already had some experience with mftrace > > (http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/mftrace/) or textrace > > (http://textrace.sourceforge.net/)? I used mftrace as a convenient tool to convert some TeX Metafont sources into Type 1 fonts, in particular some of the "Bookhands" and "Trajan" Fonts by Peter Wilson. It was easy, and I could use them for a serious professional print project with Scribus. But then, I might have been just lucky; also, a lot of manual extra work in Scribus has to be done (kerning, width etc.) with these homebrewed fonts - you do this only for a small number of headings or a couple of short lines, not for the bodyfont of a book. Quite a number of the public Metafont sources have been converted into Type 1 fonts in the last time using the tools you named. However, the "real" TeX Type 1 fonts (e. g. Latin Modern) have been created with a lot of skilled work, quite some money and it took quite some time to develop them, and there are still bugs in the fonts. > At first glance, I would be *very* skeptical of including any kind of > converted fonts without some serious QA on the fonts after > conversion. This is certainly necessary if you want to rely on your fonts. In general I would go for fonts proven in practical work, and these are most of the time the known commercial ones - and some of the Computer Modern and the Latin Modern TeX fonts. Reliability and working efficiency can make a Adobe font cheaper than a free self knitted collection of glyphs. Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht
