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Article #5334Re: Helvetica
From: Jon Feldman
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1988 19:04
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1988 19:04
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In article <3276@hubcap.UUCP> hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall) writes:
> How do i get TeX to print out with Helvetica on a LN03 and
>on a Postscript printer ? I need the actual .pxl files for doing so.
>Have the drivers etc installed. Where can i get these .pxl files.
>Looks like the .tfm for the Mac fonts came along with the TeX distribution
>but the .pxl .pk files are not in there. Any help apperciated..
> --madhu@hubcap.clemson.edu
I don't have any experience with an LN03, but as far as I know, since a
PostScript printer has fonts built in you don't need to send it a pixel
description of the PostScript fonts you'll be using.
Yes, the .tfm is still needed just so that TeX knows the font metrics. In my
experience, TeX has had no problems with arbitrarily scaling the font.
An example: On our system, a user would have the line
\font \timr=psmtimr at 24pt
to get Times Roman at 24 pt magnification.
Hope that helps.
--Jon
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!rutgers!sunybcs!ugfeldmn From: ugfeldmn@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Jon Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Helvetica Summary: PostScript fonts are builtin, you don't need .pxl files Keywords: TeX, Helvetica, Other Mac fonts, LN03, Postscript. Message-ID: <2040@cs.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 18 Oct 88 19:04:08 GMT References: <3276@hubcap.UUCP> Reply-To: ugfeldmn@sunybcs.UUCP (Jon Feldman) Distribution: na Organization: SUNY at Buffalo Academic Computing Lines: 30