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A few days ago I posted a message:

> I use psfig to include EPSF files prepared on a Mac, and most of the
> time all goes well. However, sometimes there are symbols or characters
> that print fine on the Mac but don't print within a LaTeX document.
> 
> My question: How can I ensure that non-standard PS fonts are included
> in an EPSF file, or if that's not possible, how can I manually
> transfer them from my Mac to the LaserWriter connected to my Sun?

Many thanks to the two people who mailed me replies. Marc
Heijligers (marc@es.ele.tue.nl) suggested trying MacToTex
(mactotex.tar.Z).

Ravinder Bhumbla (rbhumbla@ucsd.edu) suggested either (a) downloading
the font to the printer using the Laserwriter Font Utility, or (b)
getting the Postscript ASCII definition of the font and include it in
your EPS file.  

Ravi's second suggestion seemed the best solution, and in the end
worked perfectly. The specifics are:

1. Get the freeware utility unAdobe (it is included with the
dmm-lwstuff utility at mac.archive.umich.edu:mac/utilities/print).
UnAdobe (by Jerry Keough and Ted Ede at MITRE Corp.) runs on a Mac,
and produces an ASCII definition from an Adobe font file.

2. Move the resulting file across to the LaTeX host, and include it at
the beginning of the document which will import the EPS file requiring
the font. I used a 
  \special{header=newfont.ps}
line before the \begin{document}.

As well, my thanks go to Ravi for solving a second, related problem:
characters from the standard Postscript Symbol font were not printing
at all, when contained in an EPS file produced by the Mac graphing
program DeltaGraph. The problem is a bug in the EPS files produced by
DeltaGraph, and can be solved by adding the line
  (Symbol) findfont cd /|______Symbol exch definefont pop
just before or after the %%EndSetup line in the EPS file.

Thanks again, all.






-- 
    John Wells
    jwells@me.uvic.ca