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From: bochner@speed.harvard.EDU (Harry Bochner)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: GF/PK versions of Courier, Times?
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Date: 4 May 90 10:24:57 GMT
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Does anyone have, or know where to get, bitmap versions of Adobe fonts
(in particular Courier, Courier-Bold, Times-Roman, Times-Italic,
Times-BoldItalic) in any of the formats understood by TeX
(.pxl, .gf, .pk)?

Now that our users are able, thanks to Rokicki's dvips, to use Adobe
fonts in TeX documents and have them print correctly, they've started
complaining about the fact that they can't preview these documents using
xdvi, our preferred previewer.  Bitmaps of the fonts (in some sizes) are
available in various formats (Macintosh screen fonts, .bdf files from
the X distribution), but xdvi only understands the TeX formats, and I
don't have time to write a converter.
The nicest solution would be a PostScript based dvi previewer, but at
present we're not using an X server that has Display PostScript.

Any ideas?

Harry Bochner
bochner@endor.harvard.edu