Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!caesar.cs.montana.edu!milton!lgy From: lgy@milton.acs.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Making Fonts Message-ID: <2101@milton.acs.washington.edu> Date: 23 Feb 90 01:46:05 GMT References: <6185@hydra.gatech.EDU> Reply-To: lgy@newton.phys.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe) Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 23 In article spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) writes: -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) An unsolicited plug: I've just installed Rokicki dvips program, and I really like its support for on-the-fly font generation (plus its support of the new virtual fonts, sensible & easily extensible \specials, bitmap compression, ...). Its true that MetaFont isn't terrifically fast, but on my machine generating a previously unused font normally takes less than a minute. And of course, that only happens once. -- Laurence G. Yaffe Internet: lgy@newton.phys.washington.edu University of Washington Bitnet: yaffe@uwaphast.bitnet