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>The main question is: Should we treat TrueType and PostScript fonts
>identically?
At a guess, yes. I'm using the stanard PSNFSS support to print with the
Truetype founts that came with my Mac and HP printer, and it all seems to
work okay.
Can you explain this further? Which program do you use for converting
ttf? Can you send an example .fd-file?
Werner