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Re: PC Graphics font needed

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From: Christopher Rath
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:48
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In article <1ioae7INNf78@life.ai.mit.edu> bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:
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>   In article <gram.726486773@aim1> gram@aim1.aztec.co.za (Graham Wheeler) writes:
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>      Hi TeXers
>
>      I apologise if this is in the supplementary info; I don't have
>      a copy at the moment and I need this yesterday. I am looking
>      for a non-proportional font of the IBM PC character set,
>      including the line drawing characters. I have a whole bunch of
>      text screen dumps that I need to make into figures, and this
>      seems like the best approach.
>
>      Does anyone know if/where such a font is available, or have
>      other suggestions about how to do these figures?
>
>      A frequently asked question.  Use Adobe PrestigeElite or
>      LetterGothic.  It has all the characters in IBM OEM encoding.
>      OR used IBMExtended from Impramatur Systems in Cambridge, Mass.
>
>   Berthold K.P. Horn
>   Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

There is also a program floating around that reads VGA '.fnt' font
files and converts them to the appropriate TeX .pk and .tfm files.
Thus you can exactly duplicate your screen snapshots in your document.
Try archie...I'm not sure where it might be found.

Christopher

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