Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!garcon!garcon.cso.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Metafont->PostScript... Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 89 05:46:15 GMT References: <440@chessene.UUCP> Sender: news@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu Reply-To: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 12 In-reply-to: root@chessene.UUCP's message of 17 Jun 89 02:15:21 GMT I had heard that ghostscript would support multiple font formats, one of which would be the BDF format. I have a program, mftobdf, that converts metafont output (either PXL, GF or PK) to BDF files - it's used by texx2. You can pick it up via anonymous ftp from a.cs.uiuc.edu:pub/TeX/uiuctex2.2.tarZ. but that doesn't give you outline fonts, which would be nice, only bitmap fonts at specific resolutions & mags. -- Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)