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From: pcl%robots.oxford.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Paul Leyland)
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Subject: Re: Suntools TeX previewing with .pk fonts?
Keywords: Software
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Date: 21 Mar 89 09:23:40 GMT
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Over a year ago I modified  "dvisun" to use pk format  fonts.  This is
the  full SunView version, *not*  the primitive effort which scribbled
on /dev/fb.  There are a few local enhancements also.  The decoding of
the format takes longer than  it does for pxl,  but the I/O is greatly
reduced (because pk is so much more compact, I read in the entire font
rather than muck  about  with seeking  and file caching).  Overall the
code runs at about the same speed on a Sun-3.  "Dvi2ps" was re-written
similarly.  Other drivers  should be straightforward to convert, using
one of these as a model.

I will happily mail source to anywhere  in  the UK; alternatively, you
can pick it up from the archive  server  at uk.ac.aston.  If wnl would
like  a copy for the archives,  that can be sent as  well, but I can't
afford  lots of  intercontinental mail  to  all and  sundry.  Each  is
around 70k in size.

Cheers,
	Paul

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