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From: jtc@motcad.portal.com (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Converting PFB files to `standard' PostScript
Message-ID: <1991May13.161729.5548@motcad.portal.com>
Date: 13 May 91 16:17:29 GMT
References: <1991May13.164422.385@otago.ac.nz>
Organization: Computer Signal Corp., San Ramon, California
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In article <1991May13.164422.385@otago.ac.nz> graeme@otago.ac.nz writes:
>I have some Adobe type 1 PostScript fonts in a .PFB format. I would
>like to be able to download these typefaces with the document, i.e.,
>rather than download them to the printer at the start of a job/day, 
>I would like to load them down with the PostScript document.
>
>Does anyone have a program that converts these PFB files into `standard'
>PostScript? Anything under VMS, Unix (Ultrix), DOS, or Mac would be 
>appreciated. I know that programs such as Pagemaker will do it, but
>I can't figure how of the Aldus prep I need to get it to work
>properly with programs other than Pagemaker (I am using TeX).

Check out my pfb2pf program I just posted to alt.sources.  It's a 
filter that strips out the PFB key bytes, and hex-encodes the eexec
section.  After the conversion, its up to you get your applications
to download the fonts.

I wrote pfb2pf so I could play with ATM fonts with GhostScript.

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J.T. Conklin    jtc@motcad.portal.com, ...!portal!motcad!jtc