roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (06/28/89)
We would like to buy some of the fonts from the Adobe font catalog
and use them with our transcript troff package on our vax and sun (we have
the transcript source). I called Adobe tech support and asked them about
it. They said that the official short answer is that it's impossible, but
then went on to describe what needs to be done after just a little
prodding. Basicly, you buy the PC version of the font, download the AFM
and ABF files to the Unix machine. The AFM file gets converted into the
troff font metric file and merged with the transcript font library
(straight forward so far). The ABF file has to get converted into ascii
(Adobe says they are willing to give me the format of the binary ABF file)
and then the print spooling software (we use both pscomm and papif) has to
be taught to dowload the required fonts before each print job that needs
them. This is the hard part.
Has anybody already done this? I can see more or less what needs
to be done, but if it already exists, it sure seems a lot easier to just
get the modifications from somebody. Actually, I'm sort of surprised (and
mildly irked) that pscomm doesn't already handle downloadable fonts.
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