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From: cmaguire@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Cary Maguire)
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Subject: Public Domain Russian (Cyrillic) Postscript Font?
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Date: 30 Jan 91 19:02:30 GMT
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Greetings!  Does anyone know of a public domain russian (cyrillic)
postscript font?  Specifically, I found a directory with the following
contents at an anonymous ftp site:

lib/postscript/fonts/Times:

bits.r
greek.r
italic
italic.a
italic.r
rest.r
roman
roman.a
roman.r
russian.r

The roman and italic files are in the following format:

(fonts/Times/roman.r)
lib
run
(fonts/Times/roman.a)
lib
run

while the .r and .a files begin as follows:

CharStrings
/a
<C53D
453E
443E
443D
453C
473B
4B3B
. . .

I'm afraid I'm quite ignorant of the details of postscript, but it
seems as if there is enough here to create russian postscript fonts.
Can anyone help here?  

Also, I've noticed that TeX has PD Cyrillic Metafonts, and that using
dvips, one can conceivably printout the posctscript code for cyrillic fonts.
But does one need something else to use these fonts directly in
software which supports postscript?


Many Thanks!

Camm



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