spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (02/22/90)
>>>>> 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)
lgy@milton.acs.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe) (02/23/90)
In article <SPQR.90Feb22125232@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk> 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.bitnetdhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (dhosek) (02/24/90)
> > 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. There are a number of drivers which _can_ generate fonts on the fly, but this is not a standard feature and never will be (as chair of the DVI standards committee, I remeber the discussion on this matter). Part of the reason, as Sebastian pointed out is the drain on system resources (MF can be painfully slow on a PC, not much less so on a MicroVax, although it seems pretty happy on an IBM 3081). Other reasons include the fact that downloaded-on-the-fly fonts are not an option with some printers (e.g., large Xeroxen), among others. The discussion on this took place last summer and is archived at sun.soe.clarkson.edu. -dh -- Important note: The Anti-Social Committee will not be meeting this week. UUCP: uunet!jarthur!dhosek Internet: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.tex.tex Subject: Re: Making Fonts Summary: Expires: References: <6185@hydra.gatech.EDU> <SPQR.90Feb22125232@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sender: Followup-To: comp.text.tex Distribution: Organization: Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 91711 Keywords: > > 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. There are a number of drivers which _can_ generate fonts on the fly, but this is not a standard feature and never will be (as chair of the DVI standards committee, I remeber the discussion on this matter). Part of the reason, as Sebastian pointed out is the drain on system resources (MF can be painfully slow on a PC, not much less so on a MicroVax, although it seems pretty happy on an IBM 3081). Other reasons include the fact that downloaded-on-the-fly fonts are not an option with some printers (e.g., large Xeroxen), among others. The discussion on this took place last summer and is archived at sun.soe.clarkson.edu. -dh -- Important note: The Anti-Social Committee will not be meeting this week. UUCP: uunet!jarthur!dhosek Internet: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu