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From: john@RENOIR.BERKELEY.EDU (John Coker)
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Subject: Re: Re: X PostScript previewer (again) - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 12:13:48 EDT
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> If you want to use ups as previewer for text-processing applications
> that, like ditroff, make use of 'built-in' (i.e. Adobe) PostScript
> fonts, you must have the font-definitions. This means, you will have
> to spend a considerable amount of money just for the Adobe type
> library.
>
> Does anybody know of free PostScript fonts ? Has anybody ever
> thought about implementing a PostScript-backend for Metafont ??

    There are free PostScript fonts around, but none of them look like the
standard LaserWriter fonts which every PostScript program in the world uses.
So any other fonts are not sufficient.

    It may be possible to get the shapes from METAFONT, but this will almost
certainly require a partial rewrite of the METAFONT program itself since the
character shapes are described on high-level objects like strokes.

					John