fiasco@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Richard Gircy) (11/23/88)
First of all, thanks to all that responded to my questions about makedev -- I now have more makedevs than I ever thought possible and my tpscript package appears to to working fine. SO, I am now ready to march to new horizons... 1) Does anybody out there have troff font description files for palatino that they would like to share. Or, failing that... 2) What is a good source of documentation that gives me the palatino font specifics (primarily char widths) since with that info I'd be willing to try and develop my own description files. 3) In general, what's a good book to start to learn about postcript, the language and its abilities (like gray shading an area) and specifics on font attributes. Perhaps more than one book? 4) Occasionally I use Borland's SPRINT which has reference to EPS files (Encapsulated Post Script). What's it encapsulated in, gelatin? Is this standard PS argot or is it Borland specific? Thanks in advance for the replies. Newsgroups: comp.lang.postcript Subject: tpscript font files for palatino? Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: fiasco@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Rich Gircys) Followup-To: Distribution: world Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Keywords: First of all, thanks to all that responded to my questions about makedev -- I now have more makedevs than I ever thought possible and my tpscript package appears to to working fine. SO, I am now ready to march to new horizons... 1) Does anybody out there have troff font description files for palatino that they would like to share. Or, failing that... 2) What is a good source of documentation that gives me the palatino font specifics (primarily char widths) since with that info I'd be willing to try and develop my own description files. 3) In general, what's a good book to start to learn about postcript, the language and its abilities (like gray shading an area) and specifics on font attributes. Perhaps more than one book? 4) Occasionally I use Borland's SPRINT which has reference to EPS files (Encapsulated Post Script). What's it encapsulated in, gelatin? Is this standard PS argot or is it Borland specific? Thanks in advance for the replies.
ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) (11/24/88)
>1) Does anybody out there have troff font description files for > palatino that they would like to share. Or, failing that... >2) What is a good source of documentation that gives me the palatino > font specifics (primarily char widths) since with that info I'd > be willing to try and develop my own description files. Tpscript comes with a PostScript program that will read the font information from the printer, and produce a file suitable to feed to mkdev. The printer (really the font manufacturer) is the only reliable wource for information about a given representation of any font. -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 2560 Ninth St., Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,uunet}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146 "I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady. I'll fight them as an engineer."
jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) (11/24/88)
In article <d5fHOf7UiQ10108nPCk@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> fiasco@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Rich Gircys) writes: >1) Does anybody out there have troff font description files for > palatino that they would like to share. Or, failing that... In the tpscript package there is a file pscript/genftable.ps. [ If you don't have it, I can send it to you. ] When sending this to the printer, the printer sends a shell script (shar) back as output which contains all the information you want. In the file, you specify which fonts you want to have described, and which names you want to give them. I used that information to obtain font information and it works for most characters. But on the Apple LWIINTX I don't receive the information of a few characters (e.g. the slash) back. I'm still waiting for some time to look at that problem. >3) In general, what's a good book to start to learn about postcript, > the language and its abilities (like gray shading an area) and > specifics on font attributes. Perhaps more than one book? The blue, red and green book from Adobe Systems: Postscript - Tutorial and Cookbook. Postscript - reference manual. Postscript - program language design. -- -- ###### Jos Vos ###### Internet jos@idca.tds.philips.nl ###### -- ###### ###### UUCP ...!mcvax!philapd!jos ######