Fw: Re: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

Hi Hans

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 02:22:20 -0700, Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:

>> 3. We still need to support the 16-bit level-0 ovf fonts. Even with   
>> opentype, a large virtual font format is needed and ovf's perform   
>> excellently in my experience (though some of the utilities are buggy).  
>> In  any case, I hope it's not too much to ask that pdfetex++ support  
>> the old  ovf's lying around...
>
> what makes those ovf fonts unique? can't they be replaced by open type  
> variants?

1. Remember, we still have large CID PS fonts, not to mention regular ps  
fonts which need to be concatenated into one (large) encoding. Of course,  
one could use FontForge etc. to merge ps type 1 fonts, but it would still  
be nice to be able to create and use large virtual fonts from multiple  
other fonts, even open type fonts. Besides, dvips and dvipdfmx already  
support it, so no work needed there. It's a well-working format as far as  
my experience goes.

OpenType does not necessarily make virtual fonts obsolete, does it?

Best
Idris

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