Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aipna!cstr!tim From: tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: PostScript fonts to metafont Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 91 13:29:39 GMT References: <1991Feb4.192259.11223@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <21214@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@aipna.ed.ac.uk Organization: CSTR, University of Edinburgh Lines: 21 In-reply-to: robinson@prism.gatech.EDU's message of 4 Feb 91 21:15:38 GMT >>>>> On 4 Feb 91 21:15:38 GMT, robinson@prism.gatech.EDU (Stephen M. Robinson) said: > This is what I would like to do as well. Note: this is *not* asking > how to use PS fonts with Latex as described in the FAQ file, but > rather how to get descriptions of those fonts usable in previewers > (in my case, with a Symbolics previewer). Please post answers as > this type of question has been asked before. Isn't this what a PostScript interpreter does? I don't speak PostScript, but surely one should be able to send the outline font to it and get the bitmaps back, since this is pretty much what PostScript does for its living. In fact, many years ago I remember hearing of a program for Macintoshes which generated screen fonts at interesting sizes by this method. --tim Tim Bradshaw. Internet: tim%ed.cstr@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!cstr!tim JANET: tim@uk.ac.ed.cstr "...wizzards & inchanters..."