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Does anyone know how to download an Adobe PostScript font from a Unix
machine?

Adobe only seem to sell fonts in Mac or PC format. I want to store the
font on one of our Unix machines and download it from there, as part
of a "TeX using PostScript fonts" system. I know that the font must be a
PostScript program and as I thought that the PC files would be easier
to understand than the Mac I bought a PC font.

The printer font file does look like PostScript but it has 8 non-ascii
bytes at the start, before the "%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0" and the bulk of it
is non-ascii stuff after a "currentfile eexec". The file ends with 8 lines
of 64 "0"s follwed by "cleartomark {restore} if".

The eexec operator does not seem to be documented anywhere. The only
other use I have seen is in the LaserPrep file from the Mac, where
the "currentfile eexec" is followed by ascii hex digits and seems to
ignore newlines, like "readhexstring".

If I carefully edit the file, preserving the non-ascii stuff after the
eexec but removing the 8 bytes at the start and send this to the
printer (a LaserWriter) it complains:
%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: ^[t^KvL^L^Meb^?b ]%%
presumably choking on some of the non-ascii stuff.

What am I doing wrong and how do I do it right?
Ideally Adobe would respond by saying they will supply fonts on 1/2 inch
mag tape like they said they would in my old ring-bound PostScript Font
Manual.

Peter Ilieve				Memex Information Systems Ltd.
peter@memex.co.uk			East Kilbride, Scotland