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From: barnett@mozart.UUCP (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Postscript and bit-mapped fonts (was Re: PostScript standard?)
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Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 06:51:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  7 06:51:25 1987
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In article <1304@thebes.swatsun.UUCP> greenber@swatsun (Peter Greenberg) writes:
>BTW, PostScript(tm) accomodates bit-map fonts too, and the Hershey
>outline fonts by NBS are available for little or nothing, so you can make due
>without curving anything.

Let me repeat a request I made earlier.

I would like to include some bitmap fonts in a troff document,
and print them on a LaserWriter. In particular, the old english
versatec fonts on a Berkeley 4.3bsd system. 

I have ditroff (binary only), transcript and psfig installed.
I have even (almost) figured out how to get at the additional symbols
in the /Symbol font from troff ( I wanted the characters for hearts,
spades, clubs and diamonds).

But I would really like to include some (fixed size - of course)
bit maped fonts in a ditroff/postscript ( or even just postscript)
document.

Can anyone give me a code fragment, a program or a clue on how to do
this in a semi-automatic manner?

Bruce Barnett
barnett@ge-crd.arpa
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