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From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Request help with mf, gftopk
Keywords: resolution
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.024139.23256@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 29 Mar 91 02:41:39 GMT
Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix
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I've hit the wall in frustration; there just doesn't seem to be a
document that explains in cookbook fashion how to get from metafont
source files to all the files at various resolutions as needed by the
display devices. More frustrating, I made this all work two years ago,
and now the method has escaped me.

This is a cry for help; email would be fine, if someone wants to put
together a .mf_to_device man page and post it, all the better.

The situation:

I have (long ago) designed a logo file, company_name.mf, that contains
the instructions for drawing a moderately complex logo symbol.

For a set of point sizes from 6 to 54, I have created headerfiles
company_name6.mf to company_name54.mf.  Each of these is meant to create
a font with one entry, character #1, the logo symbol.

Once I get out the pk files, I'm moderately successful at pulling them
into TeX or LaTeX and using them; I don't think I need help there, but
that should be part of an manual page created, anyway.

Several problems occur.  When I say

	mf
	**\mode=CanonCX            <- defined in a clone of the Washington
        *input company_name6          University mode definiton file

I don't get "company_name6.300gf", I get "mfput.300gf"; how do I make the
name come out right.

Also, when I say

	mf
	**\mode=CanonCX
	*input company_name8

I get "mfput.240gf".  I have not one clue why one is at 300dpi and another
at 240dpi.

The creation of the correct resolution gf (and thence pk) file is voodoo
magic to me.  And even once the proper resolution pk files are created,
from the last time around, they don't always get accepted as the correct
ones by dvips or whatever displayer is being used.  Can anyone help _lots_?

Thanks!

Kent, the man from xanth.
<xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>