Re: [Groff] PfaEdit: better TTF -> Type1 conversion than ttf2pt1?

[Thomas Baruchel]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:56:56AM +0100, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> A while back, I suggested that ttf2pt1 could be used to convert TrueType
> fonts to Type1 for groff. Werner quite rightly pointed out that this can
> create problems with the character encoding.

Why such a conversion? There are so many beautiful Type1 fonts to use...

> I've recently stumbled across PfaEdit -- http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/
> -- which aims to be a Fontographer clone for Unices. As it's Unicode
> aware, it seems to make a better job of encoding than ttf2pt1 when
> converting a font. Has anyone tried this program and verified its
> results?

Yes, I did. In fact, I just made a trial, and it seemed to work,
but I must admit I didn't look carefully.

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