dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (03/03/91)
Archive-name: tex/metafont/mf2ps/1991-03-02 Archive: shemp.cs.ucla.edu:/pub/mf2ps.tar.Z [131.179.128.34] Original-posting-by: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) Original-subject: Re: mf2ps Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In article <521@spam.ua.oz>, lhume@spam.ua.oz (Leigh Hume) writes: > I've not heard of mf2ps before. Does it do a metafont .gf or .pk to postscript > conversion? If so how good is it and where can I get it by ftp or whatever > means. I've been told this conversion is possible and guessing that the > results will take up considerably less disk space than even the pk form. > What type of Adobe font does it produce type 1 or 3. Blue Sky, the Textures > people seem to be working on a type 1 adobe postscript versions of the CM > fonts. mf2ps is a modified version of MF (Unix Pascal(!)) which outputs Type 3 PostScript outline fonts. (Outputting Type 1 Fonts with hints would have taken more foresight than was present in the creation of CM, at least). A full write-up, adapted from the author's Masters Thesis appears in TUGboat 11#4. You can order back issues of TUGboat or get information about joining the TeX Users Group by writing to TeX Users Group P.O. Box 9506 Providence, RI 02940-9506 401-751-7760 tug@math.ams.com MF2PS is available from ymir.claremont.edu in [anonymous.tex.utilities.mf2ps] -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.