Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac,att!ucbvax!VMS.HUJI.AC.IL!maschler From: maschler@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL (MICHAEL MASCHLER) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: The plethora of Font formats- please please clarify Message-ID: <1029@shum.huji.ac.il> Date: 18 Mar 91 09:55:30 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: maschler@vms.huji.ac.il Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Lines: 27 In article , spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) writes... >In article jmn@power.berkeley.edu (J. Mark Noworolski) writes: > >to live life to the full you want to have available > - .mf sources for Metafont fonts > - .afm font metrics for PostScript fonts > - .tfm font metrics compiled for TeX > - .pk files for Metafont fonts, compiled for your printer >if TeX and dvips cannot locate all of those, you are missing out > >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) How do I retrieve .pk fonts *compiled for my printer*? When I look at places like ymir.claremont.edu, I find plenty of pk fonts, but it is not sepcified to which printer they are compiled. The reason I am asking is that I have a set of .pk fonts that were compiled correctly by dvihp, but when I try to compile them via dvips (latest version) the kerning comes out terrible. What am I missing? Michael