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From: avi@chinet.chi.il.us (Avi Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Post 1.5 problems
Keywords: postscript, post, fonts, CorelDraw
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.044127.16649@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 20 Mar 91 04:41:27 GMT
References: <388@mixcom.COM>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <388@mixcom.COM> oovvoo@mixcom.COM (Mike Shawaluk) writes:
>I recently acquired Post 1.5 (a PostScript interpreter library &
>accompanying programs) from ab20.etc.etc, and have installed and run it for
>several days now, mostly successfully...  However, I am having a few
>problems with it, that perhaps another person out there can either (a)

>    (Text deleted)
>
>1.  Since I didn't have any PS fonts when I got this program, I was able to
>		export a bunch from my PC at work, where I have Corel Draw under Windows
>		(okay, no sour faces now :-).  There is a program under Corel Draw
>		called WFNBOSS, which will do a number of font conversions, and it
>		allows its outline fonts (with DOS extension of .WFN) to be converted to
>		Adobe Type 1 fonts.  If I run the program with one of the supplied
>		fonts, it will create the .PFB, .PFM, and .AFM files, of which I copy
>		the .PFB to a 3.5" disk, and read that disk on my Amiga with
>		CrossDOS.  The problem I encounter is when I attempt to use that font, I
>		get an error message referring to "eexec" (sorry, I didn't write down
>		the exact error message, but it's easily reproducable).  I tried this
>		with a number of fonts that I had converted, and they all seem to give
>		the same error message.  As a "by the way", I was able to download some
>		fonts via a FTP site, and those .PFB files worked just fine!

There is a know problem (i.e. BUG) in Corel's font conversion utility. Even
though they advertise it will convert fonts to Adobe's type 1 fonts, it doesn't
really work.  Corel acknowledged they have a problem but I didn't hear yet
about a solution.

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