david@dogmelb.dog.oz.au (David Le Blanc) (05/17/91)
In article <rabe.674216357@tschil>, rabe@tschil.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Ralf Bergs) writes: > Hi, netters! > > Is there a converter from Postscript Type 1 Fonts to metafont source? Tomas Rokicki who develops TeX on the Amiga uses a method of interpreting the postscript, rendering each character, and writing them all to a *.pk file! Although it is currently only supported on the Amiga, and it may stay that way, I am amazed at the quality I get from it. This way, the font is now a pk file which I can print on my dot-matrix using an ordinary dvi-epson driver. Great for use with the Adobe Type Manager font set! > I have got some PD Type 1 Fonts (from cica) and would like to use'em with > TeX. If you use IBuM TeX, too bad. Otherwise, for Unix get Toms 'dvips v 5.41' which supports inclusion of postscript fonts directly. Hence it you have a laser printer it will include/reference any postscript font, including those built into the printer. On the other hand, I think dvips compiles on an IBM.. But I dont know for sure since I hate the stupid machines. > email: rabe@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de At least consider getting a decent dvips that handles external postscript fonts, then you dont need to waste your time with metafonting the postscript (which I think is a stupid idea anyway, but thats another story) Cheers David.