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Article #587Re: Q:Mac pd-font.cpt.hqx to Unix anything.bdf.gf
From: Serge A. Plotkin
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:08
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:08
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In reply to the question regarding which files one should extract from "mac-archived" fonts in order to use them with TeX/ghostscript/etc. You will need: 1. The .pfb file. Usually it is the one that has "type LWFN" in the archive. This file should be converted to pc format by "refont" procedure on pc. I do not know about any equivalent for Unix. Refont can be grabbed from cica. 2. You will also need the .afm file- this file has all the metric information (which actually can be obtained from the .pfb file) and, what is more important, the kerning information, which, as far as I understand, is not in the .pfb file. The .afm file has to be converted to .vf and .tfm files for use with TeX. the conversion process is explained in the documentation for dvips, which can be found on labrea.stanford.edu. The above process worked for me, but it is tedious, and sometimes the fonts and not at all like what one might think is implied by their name. Goold luck !
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Newsgroups: comp.fonts Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!Csd-NewsHost!plotkin From: plotkin@cs.stanford.edu (Serge A. Plotkin) Subject: Re: Q:Mac pd-font.cpt.hqx to Unix anything.bdf.gf In-Reply-To: ias2033@frontier.draper.com's message of Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:00:52 GMT Message-ID: <PLOTKIN.92Aug13200855@Troll.stanford.edu> Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford, CS Dept. References: <1992Aug13.170052.13468@draper.com> Date: 13 Aug 92 20:08:55 Lines: 23