[Tex/LaTex] Why aren’t there well-hinted Type1 Computer Modern fonts supporting the T1 encoding yet

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Given the popularity of PDF, the pain that is OT1, and the bad on-screen rendering of bitmapped fonts in Adobe's software, I would have expected that someone would have undertaken conversion/extension of the BlueSky fonts to the T1 encoding while maintaining the quality of the hints … but I've seen nothing about such a project anywhere.

Why is that? (Or am I wrong? I would love to be wrong!)

Edit:

Now I've seen that someone is selling European Computer Modern fonts in Type1(?), and evidently they use T1 — but why are they not free yet?

Best Answer

read the web page of the font project "The Latin Modern (LM) Family of Fonts" and the demo page

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Calling the compilation of file.tex with

pdflatex "\pdfmapfile{}\input{file}"

won't read any map file and so use the pk files, possibly generating them. I don't find, however, that the CM-Super fonts aren't suitable for print.

If you need Type1 fonts other than CM, make a copy of pdftex.map, call it mypdftex.map and edit it to erase all fonts you don't want. Then put the file in the suitable search paths (the work directory is OK) and call

pdflatex "\pdfmapfile{mypdfmap.map}\input{file}"

If I compile in that way the simple file

\documentclass{standalone}
\begin{document}
abc $abc$ \emph{abc} \textbf{abc}
\end{document}

I get this

You can download the small pdf and see it's made with bitmap fonts.

[Tex/LaTex] Use case for Latin Modern Math (LM Math)

The LM Math fonts are available in OTF Math format. As such they are usable with unicode-math and ConTeXt Mk IV. So you can finally use LM when using Xe/LuaTeX + unicode-math or ConTeXt (as LM + STIX Math just looks horrible). Presumably they also added additional symbols as Unicode defines lots of math symbols that aren't available in the CM math fonts.

As I read the announcement, you can't use the fonts without an OTF capable TeX engine. So with pdflatex, you have to continue to use the old fonts anyway (see the comments for a qualification of this statement).

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