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In article <9145@news.duke.edu> jpeppler@acpub.duke.edu (Jane Peppler) writes:
>From: jpeppler@acpub.duke.edu (Jane Peppler)
>Subject: Metafonts (TeX) to Type 1
>Summary: query on mf2ps
>Keywords: mf2ps
>Date: 27 Jan 93 16:56:51 GMT
>I've been looking in archives for information on mf2ps, a program mentioned
>here recently for converting TeX typefaces to Type 1. These archives said
>it converted only to Type 3. Is there more recent information available on
>this or other such programs, and the procedure involved?

  There is no more recent version so far as I know: this is the mf2ps you
have heard described as being tightly bound to the SUN (and to an old
version of metafont: the authors modified the generated Pascal code rather
than the web code for metafont).  

  Some respondents on this thread have mentioned John Hobby's MetaPost;
MetaPost, however, is a metafont-based graphics genration system which 
normally outputs PostScript code.  It generates neither type1 nor type3
fonts, though one could (in principal) use the generated code to assemble
a font.  Existing metafonts, however, e.g. CMR10, are written in a manner
which generates a large number of (overlapping) contours which would need
to be merged and rationalized.  MetaPost is not a practical method to
convert existing metafonts to outline fonts.

cheers,
Tom
Thomas Ridgeway, Director, Humanities and Arts Computing, U. Washington
Seattle, WA, 98195 USA   ridgeway@u.washington.edu   phone:(206)-543-4218