[comp.fonts] Adobe Type Library and Sun OW pageview

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