hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall) (10/19/88)
Greetings: How do i get TeX to print out with Helvetica on a LN03 and on a Postscript printer ? I need the actual .pxl files for doing so. Have the drivers etc installed. Where can i get these .pxl files. Looks like the .tfm for the Mac fonts came along with the TeX distribution but the .pxl .pk files are not in there. Any help apperciated.. --madhu@hubcap.clemson.edu
ugfeldmn@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Jon Feldman) (10/19/88)
In article <3276@hubcap.UUCP> hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall) writes: > How do i get TeX to print out with Helvetica on a LN03 and >on a Postscript printer ? I need the actual .pxl files for doing so. >Have the drivers etc installed. Where can i get these .pxl files. >Looks like the .tfm for the Mac fonts came along with the TeX distribution >but the .pxl .pk files are not in there. Any help apperciated.. > --madhu@hubcap.clemson.edu I don't have any experience with an LN03, but as far as I know, since a PostScript printer has fonts built in you don't need to send it a pixel description of the PostScript fonts you'll be using. Yes, the .tfm is still needed just so that TeX knows the font metrics. In my experience, TeX has had no problems with arbitrarily scaling the font. An example: On our system, a user would have the line \font \timr=psmtimr at 24pt to get Times Roman at 24 pt magnification. Hope that helps. --Jon -- Jon Z. Feldman | "A fool's brain digests philosophy into ugfeldmn@joey.cs.buffalo.edu | folly, science into superstition, and art acsgjaf@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu | into pedantry. Hence University {rutgers, watmath}!sunybcs!ugfeldmn | education." -- George Bernard Shaw