jonnyg@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Greenblatt) (10/25/88)
In article <293@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> cie590l@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes: >Does anyone know how to get hold of the Adobe screen fonts which correspond >to the built-in fonts in Postscript printers. I am particularly interested in >the use of these screen fonts with Microsoft Windows. I have it on good auth- >ority that these screen fonts have been placed in the Adobe Forum on >the Compuserve Information service by Adobe themselves. There is also an >installation program called PSDOWN.EXE. > >Are the fonts available on this network, or available from Adobe's file >server? Does someone in Australia have a copy? > >Thanks, >Roger Hadgraft, I had the same problem using actor in MS-WINDOWS. I used the Hershey fonts available from UUNET. I re-encoded these fonts and wrote a font system that handled these fonts in the same manner as postscript. The main addition was an assotiated scaling matrix with the font which consisted of an 6 element array of the form: [ xx xy yx yy cx cx] which corresponds to postript's format. The Actor code does little good in helping you with your C programming but these Ideas should help. If you do not have access to UUNET, talk to your local network administrator, I do not have time to be a font distributer. The Hershey fonts match most of the popular Adobe fonts. As I remeber the Hershey fonts are in volume 4 of the UUNET archives. JonnyG.