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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
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Subject: Re: mf2ps
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In article <521@spam.ua.oz>, lhume@spam.ua.oz (Leigh Hume) writes:
> I've not heard of mf2ps before. Does it do a metafont .gf or .pk to postscript
> conversion? If so how good is it and where can I get it by ftp or whatever
> means.  I've been told this conversion is possible and guessing that the 
> results will take up considerably less disk space than even the pk form.
> What type of Adobe font does it produce type 1 or 3. Blue Sky, the Textures
> people seem to be working on a type 1 adobe postscript versions of the CM
> fonts. 

mf2ps is a modified version of MF (Unix Pascal(!)) which outputs
Type 3 PostScript outline fonts. (Outputting Type 1 Fonts with
hints would have taken more foresight than was present in the
creation of CM, at least). A full write-up, adapted from the
author's Masters Thesis appears in TUGboat 11#4. You can order
back issues of TUGboat or get information about joining the TeX
Users Group by writing to
  TeX Users Group
  P.O. Box 9506
  Providence, RI 02940-9506
  401-751-7760
  tug@math.ams.com

MF2PS is available from ymir.claremont.edu in
[anonymous.tex.utilities.mf2ps]

-dh

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