Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Making Fonts Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 90 12:52:32 GMT References: <6185@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 19 In-reply-to: flur@duke.gatech.edu's message of 20 Feb 90 17:55:54 GMT >>>>> On 20 Feb 90 17:55:54 GMT, flur@duke.gatech.edu (Peter W. Flur) said: > of various dvi-drivers from Texas, but I'm having trouble making > all the fonts needed. I would assume that the dvi programs can > make the fonts as they need them, but I don't know how to implement > this. Specfically, I am trying to use dvijep and dvijet, and they > are looking for pk files that don't exist. Rather than creating > them magically, it just barfs errors. dvijep and dvijet (I assume these are from Utah) do not support on the fly font generation. So far as I know, only Rokicki's dvips does that. making a new font requires firing up Metafont, and the process takes between 1 and 10 minutes on most machines. many people don't have MF running, which is why dvi drivers dont use this technique much -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)