Re: Adobe Fonts for troff

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From: Tim O'Reilly
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1988 18:47

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In article <330@ardent.UUCP>, paul@ardent.UUCP (Paul Ausick) writes:
> I'm considering the puchase of some additional fonts for our LW Pluses and
> would like some information about using the fonts with ditroff.
> 
> Currently we use the devps software from Pipeline Associates to translate
> the ditroff output to PostScript for the LW+.  If we buy more fonts from
> Adobe, how do I get the troff font width files?  
> 
Devps includes some postscript programs to extract the font
width tables from the printer.  You must first download the
fonts manually, then send down the program to the printer to
extract the width table.  Install the binary font in
/usr/lib/font/devps/down...It's all in the devps documentation.

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Subject: Re: Adobe Fonts for troff
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