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In article <DAMIAN.CUGLEY.92Aug6141349@pierrot.comlab> Damian.Cugley@comlab.oxford.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) writes:
>   <36656@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> bhm@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Bruce H. McIntosh):
>
>      UF has just Laid Down The Law [...] all official publications MUST be
>      in the Palatino font.  I write all our tech docs in LaTeX, and have
>      been unable to find a Palatino font.  I don't have dvips.
>
>   (I assume you mean you don't have a PostScript printer.)
>
>   Bitstream do a clone of Palatino, which they call Zapf Calligraphic
>   (since Palatino is a typeface with some caligraphic qualities and Zapf
>   is its designer).  Bitstream have provided TFM/PXL versions of fonts in
>   the past (Jeremy Gibbons LaTeXed his thesis in their Baskerville, for
>   example), and maybe they have got around to producing PK versions.
>
>   This solution will cost money, of course, but if UF insist on certain
>   fonts being used then surely they are prepared to stump up the $$$
>   necessary to do so?
>
>   Damian

    If you have a PostScript printer, the solution is obvious. Get
dvips and the necessary files come with it (including palatino.sty). I
believe palatino is one of the standard fonts existing in the printer.

    If you don't have a PostScript printer, Here is a complicated but
painless solution. Get the Palatino font for PostScript jobs. On Mac's
or DOS, the ATM compatible version, there is also ATM for unix boxes.
We have it installed on Sun's. After you get the Type 1 Palatino (you
will probably purchase it) get dvips and ghostscript. Convert your
document to PostScript and then use ghostscript to drive your printer.
This works on dot-matrix printers. Using the fonts that come with
ghostscript results in poor output. Ghostscript can read both binary
and ASCII versions of Type 1 fonts (.pfb .pfa files). 

    The only catch is when you are previewing the file. If you are
using a Unix box running X, then ghostview will solve all your
problems. Installing with ATM would give you excellent characters at
any size on the screen. On a PC or a Mac ghostscript can display stuff
but it leaves much to be desired. It is not a previewer so you can
only get a feel of the layout of your pages. 

    I strongly encourage you to get a PostScript printer. I am sure
the people who enforce the Palatino law realise that people should
have access to the font. A PS printer provides the font to all the
machines connected to it. Getting Type 1 Palatino can be costly if you
need to licence it for all the machines. Once you get the printer,
then you can use the cheapest and ugliest clone of palatino (I don't
remember if ghostscript comes with a free one) to do the previewing
(who cares if it is not pretty on screen). My $0.02 worth.




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