root@chessene.UUCP (Mark Buda) (06/17/89)
So, I bought the red PostScript book, and I got a copy of GhostScript. It only has one font, aptly named uglyfont. I'm a-wondering... there are all those MetaFont font descriptions floating around out there... is there a program that will take a Metafont description and produce PostScript code to draw the characters, suitable for making a font definition out of? If there is, is it free and available via uucp/ftp? (uucp preferred, I can't ftp myself but I have friends who can.) Or do I have to write it myself? Please, if you post a response, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A Distribution: HEADER IN IT, because my newsfeed's newsfeed is, for reasons unknown, not forwarding articles that don't have them, so I might never see your article. Mark Buda hermit@chessene.uucp hermit%chessene.uucp@uunet.uu.net devon.lns.pa.us!chessene!hermit ...!rutgers!bpa!vu-vlsi!devon!chessene!hermit [currently a flaky path]
grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (06/20/89)
I had heard that ghostscript would support multiple font formats, one of which would be the BDF format. I have a program, mftobdf, that converts metafont output (either PXL, GF or PK) to BDF files - it's used by texx2. You can pick it up via anonymous ftp from a.cs.uiuc.edu:pub/TeX/uiuctex2.2.tarZ. but that doesn't give you outline fonts, which would be nice, only bitmap fonts at specific resolutions & mags. -- Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)