[Devel] Re: Type 3 font generation

[Tom Kacvinsky]

I found this link:

http://www.this.net/~frank/ttconv.tar.gz

Looks promising, as it converts True Type fonts to Type 3 fonts.
Don't know if there is a binary for Windows available.

Tom

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:

> What kind of Type 3?  There are bitmap Type 3 fonts (like what dvips does to
> turn a PK font into a Type 3 font), and there are vector Type 3 fonts that use
> the PS operators curveto, lineto, etc...
>
> In fact, a Type 3 font can be built with glyphs that are defined with each 
> method
> (bitmap and vector).
>
> On a Windows box, the PS drivers (both MS's and Adobe's) can be configured to
> output a Type 3 font for each True Type font that is going to be printed.  I
> haven't closely examined the PS code, so I am not sure if these are bitmap or
> vector Type 3 fonts.
>
> I wonder what kinds of tools are avaialble in Ghostscript.  I don't know of 
> any
> command line tools that do what the guy wants. :(
>