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From: Zachary T. Smith
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 1990 22:22

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I have two questions for you postscript gurus that I doubt the manuals
can adequately answer.

1) how do you upload font info from a postscript printer?

2) how is this info formatted/encoded?

I'd like to write a simple text formatter that would interact with a
printer at some point probably long before it decides how to place
text on a page.

Problem is, it would need metrics to do it. Whereas TeX solves this
by either using its own fonts or using reconditioned postscript font-
metric info (you can modify tex to use ps fonts instead of tex fonts),
the formatter I'd like to write would obtain this stuff as needed.

Has anybody got any info on how this is done?

Thanks,

-Zack Smith (zs04+@andrew.cmu.edu)

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From: zs04+@andrew.cmu.edu (Zachary T. Smith)
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Subject: font metrics
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Date: 29 Sep 90 22:22:22 GMT
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