Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aries!mcdonald From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Working .300pk fonts for New Century..., etc? Message-ID: <1990Mar5.140732.11347@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 5 Mar 90 14:07:32 GMT References: <1990Mar4.211018.1173@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1329@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) Organization: School of Chemical Sciences, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 33 In article <1329@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes: > > writes: >> >> I looked on the mimi-iris fonts archive and found loads of >> .pk fonts for use with LaTeX. Unfortunately, they do not work >> with Nelson Beebe's .dvi previewers such as DVIVGA. Does anyone know >> 1) how to get the two to work together, or 2) correctly-working .pk >> fonts for PostScript fonts like New Century Schoolbook? > >Well, well, well. It appears that there is a problem with the .tfm files >at mims-iris when using the latest TeX. I can't check this myself (since >I don't have TeX), but I have been promised updates to the .tfm files >Real Soon Now. So maybe check back again next week? > (I tried mail but it bounced - and had to use the numerical Internet address to ftp.) It looks to me like the .tfm files are at least readable, but the .pk files are bad. Are you sure they were uploaded in binary mode? If these files are to be useable with my previewers dvivga and dvimswin, for the VGA/EGA/MCGA and Microsoft Windows respectively, you will need, as a minimum, sizes (in dots per inch) 100, 121, and 145, though 92, 110, 132 , 158 and 174 would also be nice, especially 92 and 110. There aren't many people with displays big enough to view a page with 300 d.p.i. fonts! (And if there are ANY such people out there, I would like to hear from them. Such displays DO exist for PC's.) Doug McDonald