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A while back, I asked:

	>Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1992 16:55:42 GMT
	>
	>I am able to use Thomas Rokicki's "times.sty" and "dvips" to
	>generate my LaTex documents with PostScript fonts.  However the
	>success is limited to the generation of the postscript file; I
	>am no longer able to use "xdvi" to preview the .dvi files
	>generated with times.sty.  It complains that it can not find
	>the PS fonts.  Does anybody have a solution to this problem ?

Thanks to many people who replied.  Some people suggested to use
ghostscript, but ghostscript is not quite as user friendly as xdvi,
IMHO.  With help from Bruno Hall (bruno@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu), I
came to an understanding that one can not use xdvi to preview in
Postscript fonts directly, xdvi will substitute the unfound postscript
fonts with cmr10.

However, that is not the case if one has these fonts in pk format.  The
following is a mail from Michael Joswig, stating the availability of the
software transforming PS afm fonts into pk format (ps2pk). Since he can
not post to the USENET, I am including his mail below.  (Disclaimer: I
have not tried this out yet.)

******************Begin of Michael's mail**********************
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 10:34:03 +0200
From: michaelj@sunham.Germany.Sun.COM (Michael Joswig (Vertriebsunterstuetzung Hamburg))
To: hong@cithe304.cithep.caltech.edu
Subject: Re: times.sty and xdvi
Cc: ronald@lowt.phys.tue.nl

Hi there!
(I am reading comp.text.tex via eMail and can't reply to that Newsgroup) (Or
can't find out how...)

Several people asked about using PostScript fonts with xdvi. If you want to
use them, you should get a copy of "ps2pk". Here are the first lines of the
README file: (More infos after this!)

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                        Ps2pk-1.2 available
                        -------------------
                             (June 1992)

Version 1.2 of ps2pk is now available on:
   ftp.urc.tue.nl (address: 131.155.2.79)
   directory:    /pub/tex
   files:        ps2pk12.README         (  9k)    This file
                 ps2pk12.tar.Z          (436k)    Sources
                 ps2pk386.zip           (257k)    MSDOS executables
                 utopia.tar.Z           (342k)    Adobe Utopia font family
                 courier.tar.Z          (207k)    IBM Courier font family

   For people having difficulties in handling UNIX `.tar.Z' format I
   have made some UNIX tools (only executables) available in:
   directories:  /pub/unixtools/dos
                 /pub/unixtools/vms

   See the system specific TARZ file for some help.

   Ftp.urc.tue.nl can not handle E-mail requests. But sites are free
   to put the ps2pk12 stuff on any server that can.

When do you need ps2pk?
----------------------
Ps2pk is a tool that converts a PostScript type1 font into a corres-
ponding TeX PK font.  The tool is especially interesting if you want
to use fully hinted type1 fonts in your DVI previewer (instead of the
unhinted type1 fonts currently used in GhostScript) or on a printer
that has no PostScript interpreter.

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Additionally, there are some PK fonts derived from unhinted type 1 fonts, and
here is another excerpt of the README:

----- Begin included Text ------------------------------------------

   If you are satisfied with PK fonts derived from unhinted type1
   fonts just for previewing then you can ftp (thanks to Karl Berry):
        ftp.cs.umb.edu (file: pub/tex/psfonts.tar).

   This set contains PK files for the standard 35 PostScript fonts in
   various sizes, generated by `gsrenderfont' in the GNU font utilities
   (on prep.ai.mit.edu et al.).

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But be aware, the file psfonts.tar is about 4Megs big! I am using these fonts
with xdvi, they are working fine, no problems. Even on 300 DPI printers like
DeskJet they are somewhat useful.
Ciao,
  Michael.



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John Hong                      hong@cithe501.cithep.caltech.edu