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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
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Subject: Re: Where are the HP fonts ?
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Date: 21 Dec 89 20:59:53 GMT
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Mike Lawless <mlawless@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> writes:
> In article <83643@linus.UUCP> carlson@gateway.mitre.org (Bruce Carlson) writes
> >If the PD fonts include documentation that shows the escape sequences to 
> >use to access the fonts you should be able to use MAKEPRD (comes with
> >Word) to create a driver.  I have never tried it with downloadable fonts,
> 
> One more wrinkle--any fonts (downloadable or not) that are proportionally
> spaced need a width table.  If one is not provided with the font, you can
> figure it out for yourself, although the procedure is somewhat tedious.

There are two width table generators available on mims-iris.waterloo.edu
(by anonymous ftp or mail); CTABLE (shareware, for MS Word and XyWrite,
but somewhat buggy) and jetwidth (free, for MS Word only, but seems to
work better).

I suppose it's time to tell everybody about the mims-iris font archive 
gain.  So I'll post YA announcement...

                                        \tom haapanen
"now, you didn't really expect          tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu
 my views to have anything to do        watmims research group
 with my employer's, did you?"          university of waterloo

"I don't even know what street Canada is on"  -- Al Capone