bancroft@nas.nasa.gov (Gordon V. Bancroft) (10/17/90)
A while ago I got a font posted by Paul Haberli from this network. I can make it work with postscript, but dumpfont wont read it (I want to use it in the font manager, fm). Can this be done, and what is "adobe ascii metric format". Thanks in advance, Gordon Bancroft -- Gordon V. Bancroft NASA/Ames Research Center (415)604-4052 M.S. 258-2
msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) (10/18/90)
In article <1990Oct16.233111.25039@nas.nasa.gov>, bancroft@nas.nasa.gov (Gordon V. Bancroft) writes: |> A while ago I got a font posted by Paul Haberli from this network. |> I can make it work with postscript, but dumpfont wont read it (I |> want to use it in the font manager, fm). Can this be done, and what |> is "adobe ascii metric format". The fonts that I recall Paul posting were PostScript fonts by which I mean that the character shapes are described by little PostScript programs. While NeWS can deal with these types of fonts, the font manager can't since it lacks a PostScript interpreter. dumpfont is for converting various formats of *bitmap* fonts into the binary format used by both 4Sight's NeWS server and libfm. Adobe ascii metric format is the format Adobe distributes metrics information in. dumpfont takes these files and makes the binary .fw files from them. While we're on the subject of fonts, the forthcoming (sometime towards the end of the year) release 3.3.2 will contain the full Laserwriter set of 35 fonts for use by NeWS and libfm. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."