Dear developers,
these are the last lines of a long discussion in "lyx-users" caused by
my proposal to remove the support for bitmap fonts in target documents.
I send you this for the case, that you want to continue the discussion.
My arguments:
AFAIK the support of bitmap fonts has only two important effects:
1. Many new LyX users have do make the "ugly-fonts-experience",
at least when they publish their documents to the web,
where most people view them with Acroread.
2. The target document becomes device dependent,
what means that some devices are supported better than others.
The end of the discussion:
> > Bitmap fontes created for the resoluton and size that they are view at
> > are better than a scaled outline font.
>
> I suppose you mean the bitmap fonts created by dvips (?) for postscript
> files. In that case, you are not quite right, because they _are_ outline
> fonts, they are just already rasterized. The question is, whether the
> conversion from vector form to rasterized (bitmap) form should be done by
> document publisher (dvips) or the reader (gv/acroread/ps printer). And
> since outline fonts seem to actually work faster than pre-rasterized
> fonts, it looks definitely like the fonts should be rasterized by the
> reader, since only he may know the resolution of the output device.
>
> It actually makes some sense that LyX would make TeX and dvips to produce
> Postscript/PDF files with outline fonts when possible, by default, since
> Postcript/PDF is more common.
>
> How many PDF files you have seen on the web lately?
> How many DVI files?
>
> How many Postscript printers have you seen?
> How many DVI printers?
regards,
Marcus Beyer
http://www.Stormlight.de/lyx_de.html
