A Conversion of Public Indic Fonts from METAFONT into Type 1 Format with TEXtrace
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The paper presents fonts for Indic languages in the Type 1 format converted from METAFONT sources with the TEXtrace program, developed and presented by Péter Szabó in 2001. TEX supports major Indic scripts and the TEX/LATEX packages together with public font METAFONT sources are available in the TEX archives (CTAN) in the tex-archive/language/. The fonts in the pfb format, despite their limited quality of approximation and relatively large font file size, may be used as an alternative to corresponding bitmap fonts (represented by pk files), permitting creation of documents in PDF containing only vector outline fonts, and eliminating the use of bitmap fonts.
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