Custom Type 1 font in UNIX environment-Help!

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From: Jeff Bailey
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 14:13

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I'm working with a font house to develop a custom type 1 font for
postscript printing in a unix environment.  The type 3 font that
they sent me works fine in our environment.  The type 1 font, however,
is balked at by the printer.  They have sent us both .pfa and .pfb
fonts to try.  Here is the command that I use to do the printing:

$ cat font.pfa document.ps | lpr

The fonts are sent to me in DOS format and I upload them to my unix workstation.  
Any suggestions on what the problem might be.  It if matters, I'm
using a Dataproducts LZR 1260 printer.

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Jeff Bailey
Chemical Abstracts Service
Columbus, OH 43221         INTERNET: jdb26@cas.org
(614) 447-3600               BITNET: jdb26@cas.bitnet

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