burkett@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Edward W Burkett) (02/02/90)
Here's the situation ...... I need some help.
I have been using LaTeX on our universities Super Mini for some time now.
Actually, I do most of my editing and LaTeXing on my PC using SBTEX29 and
then HAVE TO send the DVI file to the Super Mini for previewing and printing.
What a hassle!!!
I have been trying to get together a DVI previewer and print driver for some
time now but run into the old problem of having only a meg or two of disk space
I can spare. Recently, I obtained the HERC2DVI screen previewer and Beebes
DVIEPS print driver. The HERC2DVI program doc indicates that this program will
use the same set of .pk fonts that the DVIEPS driver needs, thus reducing the
need for a variety of font resolutions. Now like many software users this is
were I get lost, talking about mag steps, MeTaFont and such things.
As far as I can ascertain, HERC2DVI subsamples 240 .pk fonts to get the required
screen resolutions. After reading the DVIEPS.DOC I am not sure but I think that
this is what the DVIEPS driver does too!
PROBLEM 1: I need a FULL SET of 240 .pk fonts for 10, 11 and 12 points.
The set supplied with HERC2DVI are inadequate and incomplete.
PROBLEM 2: From what I understand you need MeTaFont to make these fonts.
I do not have this program and from what I have been reading
most people are in the same situation as I am.
**** I have a friend that has a 24 pin printer and just received
the DVIPAN print driver from SIMTEL20. Does it use the same
240 .pk fonts as the 9 pin? ****
SUGGESTION: If indeed these two (or three) programs require only one FULL set
of 240 .pk fonts to use, could someone make these files available?
Without the fonts these two packages are not very useful! I
suggest that this **FULL** set of 240 .pk fonts be archived and
place in the pd1:<msdos.tex> directory at SIMTEL20 or some other
site(s).
I think it would be great to have LaTeX, a Hercules Previewer and the Beebes
print driver(s) all up and working on my PC.
Feel free to educate me if the above sounds fullish or better yet send me what
I need :-)
Any help would be greatly appreciate by all.
Thanks,
burkett@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Edward W Burkett)
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Wisconsin