k111@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Peter Kim) (11/13/87)
Hello. I have been using ptroff and psroff, but I do not know how to use fonts other than the fonts already installed on our laserwriter. Are there books or magazines about PostScript? I am also curious to know how you first started learning about it? Thank you. -- Peter Kim Center for Research in Security Prices ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!crsp!peter Graduate School of Business ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!k111 University of Chicago k111@sphinx.uchicago.edu
tim@ora.UUCP (Tim O'Reilly) (11/15/87)
In article <2619@sphinx.uchicago.edu>, k111@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Peter Kim) writes: > Are there books or magazines about PostScript? The basic source material for PostScript is the PostScript Tutorial and Cookbook, by Adobe Systems, published by Addison Wesley, and available in most bookstores with any size computer collection. A good magazine devoted entirely to PostScript is the PostScript Journal, published by Pipeline Associates (who are also the developers of the devps troff-to-PostScript postprocessor). You can get more information from: Pat Wood, Pipeline Associates 49 Manitou Ave Lake Hiawatha, NJ 07034 (201) 334-0772 uunet!bellcore!phw5!pat We wrote a short introduction to PostScript ourselves, which is included in our booklet PostScript Typesetting, which we were giving out as a premium to introduce our PostScript Typesetting services. However, supplies are low, and we need to save them for our typesetting customers. We will be developing the booklet into a Nutshell Handbook on the subject of PostScript and troff, which should be available in a couple of months. Besides some basic tutorial information on PostScript, the book will review the available troff-to-PostScript postprocessors, discuss methods for incorporating PostScript figures in troff documents (psfig, macros using .sy and \!, etc.), and so on. On the other part of your original query (you were asking about how to use other fonts than those resident on the LaserWriter), Pipeline Associates' devps includes instructions for downloading fonts to the printer, and a PostScript program for extracting troff width tables from the font. I'm not sure at this point what kind of support psroff includes for this, but I'm sure it's there somewhere in the manual. -- Tim O'Reilly (617) 527-4210 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Publishers of Nutshell Handbooks 981 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA 02164 UUCP: uunet!ora!tim ARPA: tim@ora.uu.net
malcolm@alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk (Malcolm Melville) (02/23/88)
I have an interesting little problem that I guess has been tackled before but I can't find anything relevant around at the moment. What I want is a font (that can be displayed on CRT displays) that can be used for tabular data (ie requires a fixed pitch so that numbers line up in columns) and for free flowing text (ie proportional) but that looks 'similar' to the viewer. Most fixed pitch fonts seem to be 'chunkier' than proportional fonts and thus don't look to good when they are placed on the same screen. Any references would be welcome. I have access to postscript for experimentation so I maybe just need a font name or two to play with. Thanks in advance Malcolm -- The views expressed are my own rather than my employers. Mind you lots of other guys round here feel the same way. Malcolm Melville