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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: where/how to get pxl files?
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Date: 10 Feb 89 18:17:00 GMT
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/* Written  3:15 pm  Feb  7, 1989 by hundt@paul.rutgers.edu in uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.text */
/* ---------- "where/how to get pxl files?" ---------- */
I'm in need of the LaTeX fonts in .pxl format, in various
odd sizes.  This is for use with the `dview' previewer, which
runs on the PC.

I'd like to know the procedure for creating these fonts;
I would imagine it involves Metafont and some conversion
program... can't find anything in the Metafontbook though.

Suggestions/pointers/answers please!

-Tom
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You are correct, that is how it is ultimately done. On the other
hand, the usual way is to ftp the files from some place that
already has them. Few people use .pxl files anymore - most use
.pk. I can, in a pinch, send you PC executables of pxtopk and pktopx
converters. .pk files are available in droves on science.utah.edu
in directory aps:<tex.dvi>. HOWEVER, that is a DEC-20 so you
have to incant "tenex" to ftp to get them -> mget does not work, ugh.
Also, the files for previewers, many sizes in the series running
through 300 d.p.i., are available on b.scs.uiuc.edu as PC .arc files.
I don't think that DVIEW uses that series, though. 
   Finally, also on b.scs.uiuc.edu is a previewer, dvivga that
DOES use the files (the .pk ones) there, but runs only on vga;s
or ega's (or 8514a's if you are rich).

Doug McDonald (mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu)