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In article <rabe.674216357@tschil>, rabe@tschil.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Ralf Bergs) writes:
> Hi, netters!
> 
>   Is there a converter from Postscript Type 1 Fonts to metafont source?

Tomas Rokicki who develops TeX on the Amiga uses a method of interpreting the
postscript, rendering each character, and writing them all to a *.pk file!

Although it is currently only supported on the Amiga, and it may stay that way, I
am amazed at the quality I get from it. This way, the font is now a pk file which I
can print on my dot-matrix using an ordinary dvi-epson driver. Great for use with
the Adobe Type Manager font set!

> I have got some PD Type 1 Fonts (from cica) and would like to use'em with
> TeX.

If you use IBuM TeX, too bad. Otherwise, for Unix get Toms 'dvips v 5.41' which
supports inclusion of postscript fonts directly. Hence it you have a laser printer
it will include/reference any postscript font, including those built into the
printer.

On the other hand, I think dvips compiles on an IBM.. But I dont know for sure
since I hate the stupid machines.

> email: rabe@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
At least consider getting a decent dvips that handles external postscript fonts, then
you dont need to waste your time with metafonting the postscript (which I think
is a stupid idea anyway, but thats another story)

Cheers
   David.