Re: [Texmacs-dev] problems with ecti10.pfb

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:36:18PM +0200, Gubinelli Massimiliano wrote:
> Hi Joris,
> 
> On 24 sept. 09, at 22:34, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> 
> >Hi Max,
> >
> >No, everything works fine on my postscript laser printer...
> >
> 
> Indeed it is strange since (at least before summer) I didn't have this  
> problem. And the problem is present only when I print the files  
> (unfortunately I do not have other printer for testing). To remove it  
> I actually replaced the problematic fonts in TeXmacs/fonts/type1/ec/  
> (essentially ecbi10.pfb, ecbx12.pfb and ecti10.pfb by equivalent  
> version obtained by reencoding some of the Latin Modern fonts. This  
> make me  think about the fact that this replacement can be pushed into  
> the standard distribution since the Latin Modern version of CM have  
> more compact representation than the default TeXmacs ec*.pfb fonts  
> (which as far as I understand are obtained by tracing the MetaFont  
> generated CM font bitmaps). Do you think this is possible in full  
> generality? Latin Modern contains a lot of gliphs and my replacements  
> seems to work fine.

Yes, we can consider this kind of replacement ...
when we come to the reorganization of fonts.
Let us first complete the Qt port ;^)

Best wishes, --Joris