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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
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Subject: Re: outline description of ps fonts wanted
Summary: Hershey fonts work with Ghostscript
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Date: 15 Jun 89 17:49:09 GMT
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In article <3011@weetabix.ai.mit.edu> karl@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Karl Berry) writes:

| GhostScript does not yet have a font library.  Support for BDF format fonts 
| might be in the next release;

What is BDF format?

The Hershey fonts work with Ghostscript, see your favorite archive site
for (a) the collection of Hershey glyphs, and (b) Guy Riddle's program
to create PostScript fonts from them.  I have sent Peter code which
lets Ghostscript automagically load the Hershey fonts on demand, and
which substitues a reasonable Hershey font when one of the common
fonts (e.g. Helvetica) is requested, warning the user (once) that
it is doing the sub.  The metrics will be off, but are close enough
for a lot of things.  Afm files are generated for *roff.  I'm working
on improvements to Guy's program, and on selection files for a symbol font,
a single-stroked san-serif font, and serif and san-serif Greek fonts.

The Hershey fonts are stroked fonts, some special effects need filled
fonts.  Also, gaps can appear in the multi-stroked fonts at larger sizes.
So we still need a collection of filled fonts.


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