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From: hrp@BORING.CRAY.COM (Hal Peterson)
Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Subject: Fonts for Ghostscript
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Date: 30 Oct 89 19:33:18 GMT
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I have Ghostscript outline descriptions for the following fonts:

    Charter-Bold Charter-BoldItalic Charter-Italic Charter-Roman
    Courier-Bold Courier-BoldOblique Courier-Oblique Courier
    Helvetica-Bold Helvetica-BoldOblique Helvetica-Oblique Helvetica
    NewCenturySchlbk-Bold NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic
    NewCenturySchlbk-Italic NewCenturySchlbk-Roman Symbol Times-Bold
    Times-BoldItalic Times-Italic Times-Roman

They are legal; I've converted these for use in Ghostscript from the
bitmaps supplied with the X11 distribution from MIT.  My distribution
package will include the AWK script that does the conversion, in case
you have BDF files of your own to convert.

I plan on making the fonts and the conversion software generally
available through FSF channels when the X11R4 distribution is
available later this year, on three conditions:  1) if Cray Research
allows me to release the software to the FSF, which I expect them to
do; 2) if the beta testing between now and the end of the year goes
well; and 3) if anybody cares to have such a thing.

So, if you are interested in beta testing this stuff, let me know by
mail (my newsfeed has been unreliable of late and I don't directly
subscribe to this mailing list).  NOTE that I'm a software tester, and
when I say ``beta test'' I don't mean early general release; I expect
beta testers to work hard trying to break and then fix this stuff,
which is not yet suitable for consumption by the general public.

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