steve@txsil.sil.org (Steve McConnel) (06/03/91)
I have submitted the sources to HP2PK to comp.sources.misc, and they are
spreading around USENET even as you read this announcement. HP2PK converts
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Soft Fonts into PK font bitmap files and TFM font
metric files.
HP2PK is of interest to the TeX community as an easy way to gain access to
a wider variety of fonts. I believe that groff (the GNU troff clone) also
produces DVI files, so groff users might also benefit from this program.
Since TeX runs on almost every type of computer system in common use today,
HP2PK has been written to be as portable as possible. The systems that it
has been ported to (and tested on) include SCO UNIX V/386, SunOS, the NeXT,
MSDOS (both Microsoft C and Turbo C), and the Macintosh (Lightspeed Think C).
A VMS port would be welcome, but I haven't yet tried to do one.
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