patrick@thomas.com (Patrick O'Shaughnessy) (11/09/90)
I have a problem. We make street maps for the west coast. These maps are postscript based, (either rgb or cymk) files. We have been trying to find a way (besides the dec) to display them on screens for simple proofing before printing them on film. It is my intention to use pageview under Open-look to do this work. In order to use pageview I have to have available a special font (Letter-Gothic) that is not included in the Open Windows distribution. My question: How do I get a new display font added to the xnews server? I have the Letter-Gothic font in PC format. This gives the following files. *.PFB - Printer fonts *.FON - Windows screen fonts *.PFM - Windows printer fonts -------------> *.ABF - Adobe Binary fonts <---OW wants .AFB files??? *.AFM - Adobe Font Metrics The convert font utility included with Open Windows requires two files *.AFB (Adobe ASCII format bitmap font file) and *.AFM to create the necessary Open Windows font files. I only have the ABF files, where/how do I get the .AFB files mentioned in the X11/News Version 2 server guide? Or how do I get the .ABF files into .snf/.bdf fonts for a native X server? Patrick O'Shaughnessy UUCP: {uunet!zardoz|sun!sunkist}!ohio!patrick Thomas Bros. Maps patrick@thomas.com 17731 Cowan PHONE: (714) 863-1984 Irvine, Ca 92714 FAX: (714) 757-1564 -- Patrick O'Shaughnessy UUCP: {uunet!zardoz|sun!sunkist}!ohio!patrick Thomas Bros. Maps patrick@thomas.com 17731 Cowan PHONE: (714) 863-1984 Irvine, Ca 92714 FAX: (714) 757-1564
caywood@teb.larc.nasa.gov (John Caywood) (11/15/90)
In article <1990Nov8.162847.6373@thomas.com> patrick@thomas.com (Patrick O'Shaughnessy) writes: > > I have a problem. > [ text deleted ] > I only have the ABF files, where/how do I get the .AFB files mentioned > in the X11/News Version 2 server guide? Or how do I get the .ABF files > into .snf/.bdf fonts for a native X server? > >Patrick O'Shaughnessy UUCP: {uunet!zardoz|sun!sunkist}!ohio!patrick >Thomas Bros. Maps patrick@thomas.com >17731 Cowan PHONE: (714) 863-1984 >Irvine, Ca 92714 FAX: (714) 757-1564 > I have the same problem -- hope someone can post some information.
rwhite@nusdecs.uucp (0257014-Robert White(140)) (11/15/90)
In article <1990Nov8.162847.6373@thomas.com> patrick@thomas.com (Patrick O'Shaughnessy) writes: > >I have a problem. > The convert font utility included with Open Windows requires two > files *.AFB (Adobe ASCII format bitmap font file) and *.AFM to create the Whenever I have needed the font metric files for this kind of thing (admittedly only fo the PC) I have gone to the adobe special intrest group in CompuServe(tm) and downloaded the metric files (for free). It was a while back, but either way it is a good contact to adobe. Rob. (I don't work with them, I don't know them, I have never seen them before in my life!)