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In article <1992Apr15.124008.1111@cenaath.cena.dgac.fr>,
melennec@north (Ronan Melennec STNA 7C p8240 BD22) writes

> 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.

What is ps2mf, and where can I get it? It sounds like just what I
need.  I'm playing with turning .pfb fonts into .pk fonts on a PC by
digitizing them with ADOBE's digitizer into .sfp fonts for the
laserjet, and them using Norm Walsh's sfptopk to make .pk fonts out of
them. If I could turn them into .mf fonts and run metafont on them, I
would prefer it.

I did a search for "ps2mf" and "pstomf" on archie and turned up
nothing. Also, I'm on a DOS platform.  Could someone who knows about
ps2mf comment on how hard a port would be?  (i.e., how much does this
use megabyte arrays and system calls to UNIX utilities). The latter is
the bigger problem, since djgpp can handle big memory demands.

On the subject, Eberhard Mattes posted something a while back to the effect
that someone (not him) was writing a pfbtopk program. If that person is
listening, how's the project going? Can we expect something (even an alpha or
beta) soon?

Thanks,
Jon