Re: Wanted: PD font editor

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From: Chris Lewis
Date: Thu, 09 May 1991 04:10

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In article <b53zac.d7z@wang.com> pvr@wang.com (Peter Reilley) writes:

>	It there a PD font editor available?   An editor that creates
>fonts in HP laser download format is what I really want.

One approach would be to use Metafont and generate PK format, then
use pk2sfp (from psroff 2.0, psroff 3.0 will be out in comp.sources.unix
when Rich comes back from his honeymoon) to convert to HP format.

Another approach is the font scaling facilities available from HP.
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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Wanted: PD font editor
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Date: 9 May 91 04:10:56 GMT
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Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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