Re: severe problems with bchr8a.pfb

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi Werner,

Do you think it is a problem with the hint interpreter of Freetype, or
a problem with the fonts?  If it is something with the fonts, I'll
look into Computer Modern fonts.  Those are now the AMS's
responsibility (even though the vendor name is still listed as
bluesky, and even though Y&Y did most of the hinting.  But I digress;
I'll ask Thomas Esser to change the vendor name for teTeX).

As for for type1z activation -- I tried ftview with the Adobe MM fonts
that come with Acrobat, and it read them just fine; I suppose this
means type1z got activated by default.

Tom

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> 
> The font bchr8a (Bitstream's `CharterBT-Roman'), available from the
> teTeX distribution (or from CTAN), shows severe distortions of
> composite glyph outlines if hinting is active.
> 
> Similar effects can be seen with other PFB's like lcmssb8.pfb (from
> Bluesky's collection of CM fonts, also from teTeX resp. CTAN).
> 
> I've tested with ftview without any special changes -- BTW, what must
> I do to activate type1z?
> 
> Minor problems occur with the font lobr.gsf (a Thai font; I've sent it
> to David privately) which renders OK but gives some warning messages.
> 
> 
>     Werner
>