Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!eci386!ecicrl!clewis From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Getting Transcript 2.1 to use all LaserWriter Fonts Message-ID: <1346@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> Date: 14 Feb 91 03:25:52 GMT References: <*fcG4w.k@cs.psu.edu> Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 27 In article ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes: >In article <*fcG4w.k@cs.psu.edu> I wrote:: >Dan> Is there any magic I need to perform to convince transcript to use all of >Dan> the builtin laser writer fonts? >Let me clarify this. What I really meant to as was how do I convience >ptroff, the shell script which runs troff, to use a built in font that adobe >did not already build the troff font files for? By default the transcript >installation only builds troff font data for AvantGarde, Bookman, Courier, >Garamond, Helvetica, Helvetica Narrow, Lubalin, New Century School Book, >Optima, Palatino, Souvenir, Times, and Zapf. What about the other ~22 fonts >my LaserWriter II NTX knows about? Psroff (the one I wrote, NOT transcript) has a postscript program that you send to your printer, and it will send a shar file back to the host computer that contains ditroff format width tables for the fonts you want. Psroff also contains software to convert ditroff width table files into CAT troff width tables. So, whether you're working with CAT or di- troff psroff has what you want. Contact me if you want more info. -- Chris Lewis, Phone: (613) 832-0541, Internet: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca UUCP: uunet!mitel!cunews!latour!ecicrl!clewis; Ferret Mailing List: (ferret-request@eci386); Psroff (not Adobe Transcript) enquiries: psroff-request@eci386, current patchlevel is *7*.