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Installing a type 3 font

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From: Joshua A. Tauber
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:05
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I am trying to create/install a type 3 font on a NeXT (NextStep 2.1).

The PostScript for defining the font works.  By that I mean that I can
include it in the prolog of a PostScript page description and use it
to show text on a page (findfont, scalefont, selectfont, show, etc.)

I have also created a .afm file (by modifying one from another type 3
font) which at least allows me to have the font appear in the NextStep
font panel.  (I have placed both the PS font description and the .afm
file in a directory under ~/Library and run buildafmdir on them.) I
believe the .afm file is correct. 

I can select the font in the font panel and type. (I am using edit.)

Never the less, text in my font does not appear on the page. 
Error messages appear on the console complaining that:

Jan 11 12:51:20 amber Edit[6618]: DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 48160
Jan 11 12:51:20 amber Edit[6618]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: workdict ]%%

workdict is a dictionary defined in the PostScript file defining
the font.

Any help would be appreciated.

    	    	    	    	    	-jat42
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Joshua A. Tauber
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From: josh@MITL.COM (Joshua A. Tauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Installing a type 3 font
Summary: Unable to install type 3 font under NextStep 2.1
Keywords: NextStep, font, type 3
Message-ID: <1993Jan11.190510.3516@MITL.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 93 19:05:10 GMT
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Organization: Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
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