At 11.42 +0200 2001-09-24, Giuseppe GhibÚ wrote:
>The second question is. Is there a table about choosing the
>UniqueID to be used for each of the Metafont fonts converted to PFB? If
>not how about to write one?
I don't think that's a kosher idea. UniqueIDs exist to help a PS printer
cache the result of rendering a font. Since MF -> PFB is not one-to-one,
but in general one-to-many as some fonts have been converted several times,
such a table would assign the same UniqueID to different PFBs. If you use
the same UniqueID for a "cheapo" and a "luxo" conversion of the same font
then you may find that the printer is using the "cheapo" conversion
throughout, when that happens to be what got put in the cache. Furthermore
the UniqueID is an optional entry in the font; what you may loose by not
having it is merely some processing efficiency.
Lars Hellström
