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From: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang)
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Subject: Re: Looking for screen previewer of a PS file
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Date: 18 Apr 91 02:29:20 GMT
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/* b2676870@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Wilson W Ma) wrote */:
* I recently built Ghostscript but I am curious about getting it to work with
* TeX fonts.  I would assume that somehow one has to do some conversion between
* the TeX font files to the GS font format but I do not know how (or maybe GS
* has the facility to understand TeX fonts as is).  Right now, whenever I do a
* preview, I just get boxes instead of characters (quite like the boxes Knuth
* used in his book to describe boxes).  It would be much nicer if I could get
* characters :)

I don't know how it is possible in general.

I looked at ghostscript fonts I ftped from prep.ai.mit.edu
./pub/gnu/ghostscript and they are ascii files. While TeX fonts are
binaries. So is that possible theoretically?
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