PHYHJR%VAXB.HW.AC.UK@cunyvm.cuny.edu (03/07/89)
As it appears that .pxl fonts are rapidly going out of fashion no doubt
all TeX users will convert to another format (.pk). However as far as I
am aware there are no Suntools previewers which can read fonts in any
format other than pxl. At present I use dvipage (I also have dvitool).
Have these been updated to allow use of .pk fonts or are there any
alternatives ?
Harvey Richardson,
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[[ Version 2.0 of dvitool (available as part of Berkeley's VorTeX package)
reads PK files. Version 3.0 of dvipage (this latest version just recently
became available in the Rice archives) reads GF files. The utilities that
require PXL files are slowly being rewritten or phased out. --wnl ]]pcl%robots.oxford.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Paul Leyland) (03/21/89)
Over a year ago I modified "dvisun" to use pk format fonts. This is the full SunView version, *not* the primitive effort which scribbled on /dev/fb. There are a few local enhancements also. The decoding of the format takes longer than it does for pxl, but the I/O is greatly reduced (because pk is so much more compact, I read in the entire font rather than muck about with seeking and file caching). Overall the code runs at about the same speed on a Sun-3. "Dvi2ps" was re-written similarly. Other drivers should be straightforward to convert, using one of these as a model. I will happily mail source to anywhere in the UK; alternatively, you can pick it up from the archive server at uk.ac.aston. If wnl would like a copy for the archives, that can be sent as well, but I can't afford lots of intercontinental mail to all and sundry. Each is around 70k in size. Cheers, Paul JANET: pcl@uk.ac.ox.robots UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!ox-rob!pcl BT: 0865 273157 (International +44-865-273157) SNAIL: Paul Leyland Engineering Science Dept Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PJ UK