[wplug] Second round of questions from newbie...

[John Harrold]

Sometime in October Anna McCullough assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Thanks for the info, though I'm not quite as concerned about font appearance
| onscreen as much as I am for how well Linux actually PRINTS these typefaces. Of
| course I want to be able to view all my typefaces in their proper glory, but as
| someone who does frequent DTP jobs I also need them to show up on paper the way
| they should, too :)
| 
| How about Type 1/Adobe fonts? I've read somewhere that Linux wants you to have
| all four font files - .afm, .inf, .pfb and .pfm - for each font, but the vast
| majority of my Type 1 library only uses the latter two (no .afm or .inf files).
| Does that suggest a problem?
| 
| Thanks again (I printed the Register pages and am keeping them for reference)!!
| 
| Cheers,
| Anna


if you are concerned about print quality, you should check out latex. it
comes free with redhat. it has a graphical front end called lyx, but i've
never used it. there is a lot of stuff on the net to get you started, the
first one to come to mind is the ``not so short guide to latex2e''. there
is also a tex news group that has a lot of information when you have
specific questions. 

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