Re: Making Fonts

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From: Sebastian Rahtz
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 12:52

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>>>>> On 20 Feb 90 17:55:54 GMT, flur@duke.gatech.edu (Peter W. Flur) said:

 > of various dvi-drivers from Texas, but I'm having trouble making
 > all the fonts needed.  I would assume that the dvi programs can
 > make the fonts as they need them, but I don't know how to implement
 > this.  Specfically, I am trying to use dvijep and dvijet, and they
 > are looking for pk files that don't exist.  Rather than creating
 > them magically, it just barfs errors.
dvijep and dvijet (I assume these are from Utah) do not support on the
fly font generation. So far as I know, only Rokicki's dvips does that.
making a new font requires firing up Metafont, and the process takes
between 1 and 10 minutes on most machines. many people don't have MF
running, which is why dvi drivers dont use this technique much

 
--
Sebastian Rahtz                        S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)
Computer Science                       S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet)
Southampton S09 5NH, UK                S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp    (uucp)

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