system@asuvax.UUCP (Marc Lesure) (12/10/87)
Has anyone tried to convert the Berkeley Font Catalog to Postscript? Our old versatec has been replaced with a postscript laser printer and we would like to continue using these fonts. We are also using Adobe's Transcript for formatting (ptroff). Any information would be nice. Thanks - ------------------------------------------------- Marc Lesure System Manager Engineering Computer Center Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona UUCP: ...!ihnp4!noao!asuvax!lesure CSNET: lesure@asu ARPA: lesure%asu@csnet-relay
lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee) (12/21/87)
In article <158@asuvax.UUCP> system@asuvax.UUCP (Marc Lesure) writes: >Has anyone tried to convert the Berkeley Font Catalog to Postscript? >Our old versatec has been replaced with a postscript laser printer and we >... ptroff ... Well, some of those fonts are derived from the Hershey data base, and there is a way to construct PostScript fonts from that. The fonts are analytic, in the form of a PS program, and are constructed of lines. I don't know whether they can be used with ptroff (you'd have to construct appropriate files with character-size data, somehow), but they can be used with TeX. Probably somebody has a better way -- this is rather involved ... You need: (1) the Hershey database, which is in the mod.sources archive, volume 4, named "hershey" (in 5 parts), (2) Hershey utilities, in the mod.sources/comp.sources.unix archive, volume 12, issues 40-44, named "hershtools", and (3) Hershey utilities update, perhaps to appear soon in comp.sources.unix, or if not, in comp.sources.bugs, or available by email from me, on request. Then perhaps after some exploration to see what characters are available in the database (which includes thousands of "oriental" characters) and constructing various intermediate files, you can construct the PS fonts, and also pl files which can be turned into TeX tfm files with the pltotf utility. Greg Lee, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu