koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E. Koontz X5180) (12/08/89)
What is entailed in converting a Postscript font distributed for use in a Macintosh environment for use in a PC DOS environment? Are there tools for generating HP LaserJet (II, etc.) bitmap fonts from Postscript outlines?
woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) (12/08/89)
In article <1863@alpha.cam.nist.gov>, koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E. Koontz X5180) writes: > What is entailed in converting a Postscript font distributed for use in > a Macintosh environment for use in a PC DOS environment? > > Are there tools for generating HP LaserJet (II, etc.) bitmap fonts from > Postscript outlines? Well, the diffrences are documented by Adobe. They used to have a document that detailed the diffrences. Once you have the files re-arranged a bit, then you can use them. The real problem will be that there is no tool for converting mac screen fonts to windows screen fonts. There are several companies that have such tools, but they are not available comercialy. On of my back-burner projects is to create just that. I have a lot of the information, but would love to find someone else to collaborate with. 2 heads typicaly are better than 1 in situations like this. As to the other question, Arts and Letters has a previewer but I don't think you can caputure the bit maps. If you have an NTX with a hard disk, you can caputure adobe font bitmaps, and read them back to the host. Then you can convert them to hpLJ fonts. Ultra Script from The Laser Connection in Mobile Alabama is a PS interpreter that can drive a laserjet (it maps things into the PC memory map, and them converts the maps to graphics). It might be possible to use this package, and grab the output to the laserjet... Cheers woody
hammen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert J. Hammen) (12/09/89)
If you just need the screen fonts (ie, have converted over the printer fonts from a Mac, or stored the fonts on disk attached to the printer) you can buy just the screen fonts from Adobe. Some of them are available on CompuServe. Also, you might want to check around with any local DTP service bureaus, since they can redistribute them (not all service bureaus have copies of the PC screen fonts, though). Robert