Return-Path: Received: from [62.76.169.38] (HELO video) by vsu.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 3824353; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:38:35 +0400 To: CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru, CyrTeX-ru@vsu.ru, PVT-TEX@vsu.ru Cc: tex-fonts@math.utah.edu, tetex@informatik.uni-hannover.de, ntg-vtex@ntg.nl Subject: CM-Super package released From: Vladimir Volovich Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:38:49 +0400 Message-ID: Lines: 95 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.103 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, The CM-Super package could be freely downloaded from ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/font-packs/cm-super/ (see below for details). This is the first public release of these fonts, so we welcome comments and bug reports. Best, v. ========================================================================= CM-Super font package version 0.1 (September 18, 2001) Copyright (c) 2001 Vladimir Volovich . See the file PUBLIC (Aladdin Free Public License) for license conditions. As a special exception, permission is granted to include these font programs in a Postscript or PDF file that consists of a document that contains text to be displayed or printed using these fonts, regardless of the conditions or license applying to the document itself. The CM-super package contains type1 fonts converted from METAFONT fonts and covers entire EC/TC and LH fonts (Computer Modern font families). All european and cyrillic writings are covered. Each Type1 font program contains ALL glyphs from the following encodings: T1, TS1, T2A, T2B, T2C, X2, and also Adobe StandardEncoding (582 glyphs per non-SC font and 465 glyphs per SC font), and could be reencoded to any of these encodings using standard dvips or pdftex facilities (the corresponding support files are also included). I.e., these type1 fonts could be used as an immediate replacement for LaTeX's EC, TC, and LH fonts to create Postscript and PDF documents with vector fonts (i.e. no changes to your LaTeX documents are required to use these fonts once you have them installed). You could also prepare EPS or PDF illustrations in your favorite applications with texts written using these fonts, and then include them in your LaTeX documents. These fonts could be used not only in TeX-related applications, but also as all other Type1 text fonts, e.g. in Windows (and you will be able to typeset multilingual texts using them). Font file names correspond to the scheme used in EC fonts, with the first two letters "sf" ("super font") instead of "ec". E.g., sfrm1000.pfb contains all glyphs from: ecrm1000, tcrm1000, larm1000, lbrm1000, lcrm1000, rxrm1000. Fonts were created with using textrace (based on autotrace and Ghostscript), t1utils and a bunch of Perl scripts, and were optimized and hinted using FontLab 3.1 provided by FontLab Ltd. The set of UniqueID values was registered at Adobe. It appears that careless approach to FontLab's optimisation and auto-hinting facilities could lead to loss of quality of the original font (some glyph shapes could be broken), so we used the most precise optimisation, and hope that optimised and hinted fonts are indeed better than original traced fonts (also, they are significantly smaller in size). So far, we did not find any bugs in optimized fonts. Note that a small number of (fortunately, rately used) fonts are not included yet because of the bugs in EC font drivers which prevented their generation. We plan to provide these missing fonts soon. (Currently there are 376 Type1 font files here, of total 401.) The CM-Super package could be freely downloaded from ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/font-packs/cm-super/ (and soon from CTAN) (see also ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/README for a list of mirrors) The size of the entire package is about 54Mb. To install this package in teTeX or TeX Live systems, copy all type1 fonts (*.pfb files) to .../texmf/fonts/type1/public/cm-super/ directory and install the MAP (*.map) and ENC (*.enc) files to their usual place (e.g. under .../texms/dvips/cm-super/), and instruct dvips and pdftex to use these MAP files (e.g. using the "updmap" script). Do not forget to update the texmf filename database (run mktexlsr). Although this package is provided AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY (as explained in the file PUBLIC), we request your comments and bug reports which should be sent to the email address given above. Happy TeXing! TODO: * provide AFM and INF files * provide optimized but not hinted version (will be smaller)? * include glyphs from TS1 encoding into SC fonts? (useful for non-TeX applications) * add glyphs from T2D encoding * add all other glyphs from LH fonts * full support for unicode cyrillic codepage * include glyphs from cbgreek ec-like fonts * add CM Concrete family =========================================================================