gtoal@tharr.UUCP (Graham Toal) (02/05/91)
In article <1991Feb1.114511.1351@urz.unibas.ch> gaspar@urz.unibas.ch writes: >Does anybody know how to convert TeX, LaTeX etc. font into outline fonts? >I'm using Graham Toals conversion of TeX with MusicTeX with Tiggr's previewer. >But as long as I don't have the outline fonts of the MusicTeX fonts I use too >much paper to check the result. >Neither G.Toal, nor Tiggr answered my question. Is it too obvious? >I'd apreciate any help very much! >laci Sorry - we might be suffering bouncing mail problems again. The original fonts were converted to outlines with some software from Neil Raine of Acorn which took !Paint files (rasters) and turned them into !Draw files (outlines). I hacked an interface which converted a gf file into a !Paint file, and another which turned a set of !Draw files (one per char) into a font file. The fonts to be converted had to be generated specially by metafont at high resolution (3000dpi) This software went stiff ages ago, and was proprietary to Acorn. I had it by arrangement with the author. Another method I started working on more recently with tiggr's help was converting gf files to scalable xy pixel fonts. These actually look better than the outline fonts at small sizes. I can send you that code if you like. But there's a bug - it generates effectively random intmetric files. So it only works in cases where tex has set each character with an absolute dvi xy move -- if the previewer gets a packet of letters together with only implied moves between, they'll be wrongly positioned. This could either be fixed properly, or kludged by tweaking the previewer not to paint text in packets (probably a one-liner but unclean) However since you have the sources, this is your best bet. Mail me your address (paper mail - only reliable kind) & I'll post what I have to you. Graham PS Everyone please note - I answer *ALL* mail, so if you don't get a response, keep trying: various addresses for me are: gtoal@tharr.uucp zesz01@ed.ac.uk gtoal@ed.ac.uk gtoal@tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk (those were in increasing order of preference) Route via ean-relay earn-relay or nsfnet-relay. don't route mail to the tardis address via ukc. -- (* Posted from tharr.uucp - Public Access Unix - +44 (234) 261804 *)