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In article <d5fHOf7UiQ10108nPCk@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> fiasco@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Rich Gircys) writes:

>1) Does anybody out there have troff font description files for
>   palatino that they would like to share. Or, failing that...

In the tpscript package there is a file pscript/genftable.ps.
[ If you don't have it, I can send it to you. ]
When sending this to the printer, the printer sends a shell script (shar)
back as output which contains all the information you want.
In the file, you specify which fonts you want to have described,
and which names you want to give them.

I used that information to obtain font information and it works for
most characters. But on the Apple LWIINTX I don't receive the information
of a few characters (e.g. the slash) back.
I'm still waiting for some time to look at that problem.

>3) In general, what's a good book to start to learn about postcript,
>   the language and its abilities (like gray shading an area) and
>   specifics on font attributes. Perhaps more than one book?

The blue, red and green book from Adobe Systems:
Postscript - Tutorial and Cookbook.
Postscript - reference manual.
Postscript - program language design.

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