Metafonts (TeX) to Type 1

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2 total messages Started by Jane Peppler Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:56

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Author: Jane Peppler
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:56

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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?

Re: Metafonts (TeX) to Type 1

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Author: Thomas Ridgeway
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:09

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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

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