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Hello,

I'm trying without success to print dvips (version 5.47) output
that uses a non-resident Adobe Type 1 font.
By non-resident I mean a font that is not
defined in the printer ROM, but rather comes as a .pfb file.

I followed these steps:

- I built .tfm and .vf files for the font, using the font's .afm files
and the usual tools (afm2tfm and vpltovf) ; I installed them
in the proper places ;
- I updated dvips's psfonts.map telling it to use the supplied .pfb
file when generating PostScript output ; I installed it (the .pfb file)
in the proper place ;
- I ran TeX and dvips on a .tex file that used that font :
neither complained (dvips reported that it successfully loaded
the .pfb file) ;
- I sent the .ps output to the PostScript device queue
(it's a Laserwriter II NT driven by SunOS 4.1.1) : nothing happened.

On inspecting the generated .ps output, I found that only the first
1200 bytes or so from .pfb file were put in the .ps output.
Obviously the printer doesn't receive the necessary information
(the .pfb file is more than 33 kbytes long).

My questions:
- do I have to somehow preload the .pfb font ? If so, *how* can it
be done ?
- if not, is this a known dvips bug ?
- did anybody try the same thing successfully ?
- where can the latest `certified' dvips sources be downloaded from ?

The .pfb file *seems* to be in good state : Dings's and Vens's ps2mf
toolkit successfully generates a decent looking .ps font file from it.

Thank you in advance,

Ronan

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