Re: [tex-k] secure mode of dvips should be default

[Giuseppe Ghibo']

Thomas Esser wrote:

> 
> > Giuseppe Ghibo' writes:
> >  > > there is a recently-announced "textrace" program which goes some of
> >  > URL?
> > ur, um, I have lost it! did anyone else record it?
> 
>   http://freshmeat.net/projects/textrace/


Thanks a lot. Hmmm, it seems bitmap vector tracing, which could
have problems of precisions. If I remember right, METAPOST can
extract outlines in type3 too, so the problem would be to
convert type3 outlines to type1 and add the hints manually. MetaFOG from
R. Kinch resolved the problem mathematically (http://truetex.com/tug95.zip, if I 
remember right
there was approssimation, but could be acceptable and more precise than bitmap 
tracing),
and Basil Malishev (BaKoMA) too.

Bye.
Giuseppe.