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Re: What's the relationship between vfs and tfms?

To: "Berthold K.P. Horn" <bkph@ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: What's the relationship between vfs and tfms?
From: Werner Lemberg <sx0005@sx2.hrz.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:54:44 +0100 (MET)
cc: rebecca@astrid.u-net.com, tex-fonts@csc-sun.math.utah.edu
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In-Reply-To: <199711302044.PAA15285@kauai.ai.mit.edu>

On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Berthold K.P. Horn wrote:

> It is actually hard to reencode a TT font. (2) If you consider
> different platforms then indeed the T1 font has several different encodings
> (Windows ANSI, Mac standard roman, ISO Latin 1), as does a TT font
> (except that many TT fonts do not have the required tables - e.g. Apple's TT
> fonts lack the Windows tables).

Richard Kinch has written a small tool which makes it easy to manipulate
the encoding tables of TT fonts (it is freely available). Unfortunately I
forgot the name of this tool.

    Werner

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