Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1)

[Werner LEMBERG]

> We are looking for freely redistributable clone version of the
> Arial/Helvetica, Times and Courier fonts (normal, bold, italic and
> bold/italic faces). We spent a good amount of time searching on the
> net, and we came up most of the time with incomplete fonts with no
> real distribution policy. The Type1 fonts provided with XFree86 look
> fine, but they are missing a couple of faces. The Ghostscript fonts
> looked fine too, and URW, who contributed those to Ghostscripts
> years ago, was kind enough to allow us to do the same. Now this
> hinting problem is an issue, sadly.

I suggest you try pfaedit.  This free font editor comes with a
scripting engine which should make it possible to automatically add
ghost hints to the URW fonts delivered with ghostscript.  Even
manually it should be completed in a few hours for all standard fonts.


    Werner