caywood@teb.larc.nasa.gov (John Caywood) (06/06/91)
We purchased 10 Adobe font families from the Adobe Type Library and loaded the outline fonts onto hard drives on our two high-resolution PostScript printers. We purchased two copies of each (1 PC format, 1 Mac format) to meet Adobe's licensing requirements. With appropriate font conversion programs, we can access these fonts thru TeX, and can successfully print them from the two devices on which the outline fonts are loaded. We now want to preview files containing these fonts with the 'pageview' PostScript previewer program under Sun's OpenLook product. Adobe's license agreement states (in part) "You may also use the Bitmap Fonts on any number of screens with a resolution of 120 dots per inch ("dpi") or less....", so I think we're legally entitled to use the bitmap fonts on the Sun. For each font, we received (in PC format): font____.afm font____.fon font__14.abf font____.pfb font__10.abf font__18.abf font____.pfm font__12.abf font__24.abf The "X11/NeWS Server Guide" says to use 'convertfont' on the .afm and .afb files to convert the files to Sun's F3 format. I can create the font metrics file by running convertfont font.afm which produces font.fm, but I still need the bitmaps. For every other file .pfb, .pfm, .fon, and .abf, convertfont reports : not a valid font file so I have no bitmaps. I can run bldfamily to produce a .ff file, tho it complains that there is no Compat.list file. Is there another Sun manual that covers this? Am I missing files? Is there a conversion program to go from .abf to .afb? Or is it easier to go from Mac format to .afb? Thanks in advance. John Caywood SysAdmin, Technical Editing Branch