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From: changj@turing.cs.rpi.edu (John Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: conversion of .tfm font files into .pk or .gf format
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Date: 24 Jun 91 18:44:22 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.220225.17780@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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   In article <1991Jun19.220225.17780@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> bulsara@rainbow.
   ecn.purdue.edu (Vispi H Bulsara) writes:
   >I would like to know if there is any program that converts .tfm font
   >files to .*gf or .*pk format which is used for previewing and printing.
   >
   >I am running TeX, C Version 2.95 on SUN SPARCstation 1 and SUN 3/60
   >workstations.
   >
   >Thanks,
   >Vispi (bulsara@gn.ecn.purdue.edu)

  >> I'm sorry, but there is absolutely NO way to do that !
  >> Explanation: *.tfm files contain only metric information on fonts used
  >> by TeX to determine the layout of your text (simply spoken :-)), but
  >> they don't contain any graphic information on the font itself.
  >> So, the only way to obtain the *.gf and *.pk files is to ftp them from
  >> some site (the standard fonts are PD) or to generate them with
  >> MetaFont (a program that generates font graphics and font metrics from
  >> font (mathematical) font descriptions)

To follow up on this subject, how do you generate .gf and .pk using MetaFont?
I followed the instruction in one of the README's but I can't get it to work
properly.  For example, it says:

	mf '\mode:=sun;\mag=SMALL/1000;\batchmode;\input YYY'
	mf '\mode:=sun;\mag=LARGE/1000;\batchmode;\input YYY'

would produce YYY.85gf and YYY.95gf respectively (where YYY is the fontname).
However I can only get .85gf, even if I substitute 1000 for something else.  
I guess I don't really understand what magnification and all that are.  What
do I have to use to get, say, *.102gf (one of the ones I need)?  Thanks for
any help.