[comp.sys.next] Can ghostscript fonts be used on a next?

finger@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Jay Finger) (01/13/91)

I downloaded the ghostscript 2.1 fonts from prep.ai.mit.edu last night. 
There's several fonts in there that appear to be type 1 (at least they say 
they are; I'm not a PostScript expert).  It would be really nice to be
able to use them, assuming that Adobe's PostScript can read ghostscript
fonts.

But there aren't any .afm or .bepf files with them.  The NeXT
documentation says that you don't have to have the bitmap fonts, but
how would one go about generating the .afm files?  NeXT doesn't supply
a utility to generate them from the font files; is something like that
available elsewhere, or do the .afm files really have to be built by
hand?

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