confusion about the size of .gf files

[Eriks Rugelis]

imagine a tiny voice in the TeX wilderness calling.... help!

i am more than a little confused about the new .gf font format
that in my understanding is meant to supersede the older .pxl
format; i have seen several people post to the net stating that
the .gf fonts are supposed to occupy less space than .pxl fonts

that sounded real fine to us until we started cranking our newly
received computer modern .mf's through metafont... we were confronted
with .gf files that are an order of magnitude larger(!!) than their
corresponding .pxl's

e.g. cmr9 from the 1000 sub-directory
.pxl 19 512 byte disk blocks
.gf 240 disk blocks

so ok... did we do something terrible to the .mf's that we got from
maria code? does maria code deliver .mf's that need doctoring before
we use them?

we are targetting a 300 dpi canon type laser box and are first of
all concerned with doing this on vax/vms although we will be installing
TeX on our sun 3's as well

signed... keep the money! send more disk space!!
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