Xref: utzoo comp.text.tex:5007 comp.fonts:1876 Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.fonts Subject: Re: downloadable postscript to TeX .pk/.tfm convertor wanted Message-ID: Date: 25 Jan 91 10:01:45 GMT References: <8148@suns102.cel.co.uk> Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 26 In-reply-to: jc@cel.co.uk's message of 24 Jan 91 16:40:24 GMT In article <8148@suns102.cel.co.uk> jc@cel.co.uk (jerry cullingford) writes: I have some (variant?) compugraphic outline fonts with a utility to produce downloadable postscript versions, and I'd like to be able to use the fonts with TeX and a non-postscript printer. produce the downloadable fonts, and stash them away. now all you need to use them from TeX is a) a dvi to PS driver that understands the idea of downloading fonts (eg dvips or dvitops) and b) font metrics. if your utility does not provide .afm files for the fonts, one technique is to hurl the fonts at the printer with instructs to work out the metrics on the fly and send them back to the host. If you can't trap the dialogue with the printer, this is no use... if you need the code to append to a font to make it generate an AFM file (which you the run through afm2tfm), I can send it. If you mean you do not have a PostScript printer but still want the fonts, forget all the above! Sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)