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Re: Working .300pk fonts for New Century..., etc?

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From: Tom Haapanen
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 12:38
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  <marshall@mozart.ces.cwru.edu> writes:
> 
> 	I looked on the mimi-iris fonts archive and found loads of
> .pk fonts for use with LaTeX. Unfortunately, they do not work
> with Nelson Beebe's .dvi previewers such as DVIVGA. Does anyone know
> 1) how to get the two to work together, or 2) correctly-working .pk
> fonts for PostScript fonts like New Century Schoolbook?

Well, well, well.  It appears that there is a problem with the .tfm files
at mims-iris when using the latest TeX.  I can't check this myself (since
I don't have TeX), but I have been promised updates to the .tfm files
Real Soon Now.  So maybe check back again next week?

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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Working .300pk fonts for New Century..., etc?
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Date: 5 Mar 90 12:38:37 GMT
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