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-This ps2pk program (all versions) is available under the same
-permissive license as the Type 1 interpreter code that it is based on
-(and incorporates). For the exact wording, see, for example, the type1.c
-source file.
---Piet Tutelaers and Pierre MacKay, May 2011.
-
-ps2pk is currently maintained as part of TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive),
-and distributed through TL and CTAN.
-
- Ps2pk-1.4 available
- -------------------
- (January 1994)
-
-Version 1.4 of ps2pk is now available on:
- ftp.urc.tue.nl (address: 131.155.2.79)
- directory: /pub/tex
- files: ps2pk14.README ( 9k) This file
- ps2pk14.tar.gz (237k) Sources
-
- For MSDOS people having difficulties in handling UNIX `.tar.gz'
- format I have made some UNIX tools (only executables) available
- in directories:
- /pub/unixtools/dos
-
- See the system specific TARGZ file for some help.
-
- Ftp.urc.tue.nl can not handle E-mail requests. But sites are free
- to put the ps2pk14 stuff on any server that can.
-
- I have made read-to-go 1.4 executables for MSDOS available in:
- pub/tex/ps2pk14x/msdos/djgpp (created with DJGPP/gcc)
- msdos/emx (created with EMX/gcc)
-
-When do you need ps2pk?
-----------------------
-Ps2pk is a tool that converts a PostScript type1 font into a corres-
-ponding TeX PK font. The tool is especially interesting if you want
-to use fully hinted type1 fonts in your DVI previewer (instead of the
-unhinted type1 fonts currently used in GhostScript) or on a printer
-that has no PostScript interpreter.
-
-In order to use the ps2pk generated fonts your driver and previewer need
-to support virtual fonts. The reason is that PostScript fonts and TeX
-fonts do have a different font encoding and handle ligatures in a
-different way. With virtual fonts the PostScript world (encoding +
-ligatures) can be mapped to the old style TeX world on which the current
-plain macro packages still are based (despite the fact that TeX3.0 can
-handle 8bits).
-
-It is also possible to use the ps2pk generated PK fonts directly
-(without virtual fonts) but in that case you need modified plain TeX
-macros in order to acces the new (changed) font features. To make TeX
-really 8bits (the reason TeX3.0 was released) TUG has proposed a new
-font standard supporting the full 8bit range (in stead of the 7bit).
-The 128 extra characters in this new TUG standard are filled up with
-characters for 17 different European languages (see: TUGboat #10 vol.
-4 1990). With ps2pk it is possible to generate PK fonts from
-PostScript fonts according to this new TUG font standard.
-
-Ps2pk and virtual fonts.
-------------------------
-In order to use ps2pk in combination with virtal fonts you need afm2tfm
-(the version belonging to dvips5.487 or newer), dvips and a previewer
-supporting virtual fonts (ex.: xdvi on UNIX).
-
-PS: the latest version of dvips can be retrieved from
- labrea.stanford.edu:pub and xdvi from export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib
-
-Ps2pk without virtual fonts.
-----------------------------
-This road in not a paved one even for experienced TeX users! So be
-prepared that you need to build some bridges and other improvements to
-reach your goal. Or simply wait until the TeX community has switched to
-the new TUG font standard.
-
-Dvips (5.487 and higher) supports different TeX and PostScript
-encodings. If you choose for the new TUG fontstandard defined in the
-Cork meeting, as the TeX and PostScript encoding, you have to:
- - generate a set of TFM/VF fonts for the `EC' (Extended Computer
- Modern Font encoding) using afm2tfm and vptovf,
- - install the new encoding vector EC.enc so it will also be used for
- the resident/downloaded PostScript fonts
- - install a modified version of NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme) using
- this encoding scheme.
-
-Type1 PostScript text fonts.
-----------------------------
-Fully hinted type1 fonts are generally not PD. You have to buy them
-unless you are satisfied with the PD available GhostScript versions
-(which are currently not hinted). You don't need to be an expert to
-see the difference between hinted and unhinted fonts. If you are
-using MSDOS or MacIntosh computers you probably use Adobe Type Manager
-(ATM) a program that can render type1 fonts dynamically. With this
-program or with other programs using ATM (for example Lotus) you
-receive fully hinted type1 fonts. On MSDOS they have funny names like
-tmr______.pfb. To save space on MSDOS type1 fonts are binary encoded
-(.pfb). On UNIX you can use this .pfb format too or the .pfa format
-(which occupies about double the space of a .pfb format).
-
-If your UNIX workstation supports DPS (Display PostScript) than
-you already may have a number of fully hinted type1 fonts. Look in
-places like /usr/lib/dps.
-
- If you are satisfied with PK fonts derived from unhinted type1
- fonts just for previewing then you can ftp (thanks to Karl Berry):
- ftp.cs.umb.edu (file: pub/tex/psfonts.tar).
-
- This set contains PK files for the standard 35 PostScript fonts in
- various sizes, generated by `gsrenderfont' in the GNU font utilities
- (on prep.ai.mit.edu et al.).
-
-Adobe has donated their Utopia font family to the X-consortium and IBM
-their Courier font. Both families are available on ftp.urc.tue.nl. The
-Courier font from IBM does have a rich set of accented characters not
-found in other Adobe fonts. Both fonts are fully hinted.
-
-Lee Hetherington has written a set of type1 conversion utilities. These
-allow to convert from binary (PFB) to ASCII (PFA) and back. Or to
-convert a type1 font into readable PostScript (disassemble) with the
-possibility to edit it and to convert it back (assemble) to some type1
-encoded form. They are now maintained by Eddie Kohler and available at
-http://www.lcdf.org/type (and as part of TeX Live).
-
-Type1 PostScript math fonts.
-----------------------------
-The PostScript type1 symbol fonts do not have the same rich set of math
-symbols as the TeX fonts. There are two exceptions: the Lucida fonts
-and the MathTime package. I have no experience with the Lucida fonts.
-The MathTime package from Michael Spivak has the disadvantage that it is
-too much MacIntosh/AMSTeX oriented. There are people who are working on
-LaTeX support based upon NFSS. Another disadvantage of MathTime is that
-it is built on top of TimesRoman-Italic (not delivered with the package)
-and lacks bold-italic symbols.
-
-Acknowledgements.
------------------
-Ps2pk uses the type1 rendering software IBM has donated to the
-X-consortium. This rendering package is used by ps2pk as pure as
-possible. But in order to support user specified encoding schemes, to
-generate extended and/or slanted font variations, to uncouple it from the
-X protocol and to fix some bugs I needed to change some of the sources.
-
-I also want to thank the `ps2pk discussion forum' who helped me to make
-ps2pk as it is now. Especially Tom Rokicki for enhancing his dvips/afm2tfm.
-
-I wish you a lot of fun with type1 fonts,
-
---Piet
-
-Piet Tutelaers
-Computer Center Room RC 1.90
-Eindhoven University of Technology
-P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, NL
-
-
-For those who have used earlier versions of ps2pk next differences may be
-of interest (only major differences are mentioned):
-
-Ps2pk 1.4 release (94-01)
--------------------------
-1) Memory allocation made dynamically
- 1.1 in computing runlengths (needed to build PK fonts)
- 1.2 in scanning type1 fonts (to overcome `fixed' virtual memory)
-2) Problem with handling Lucida font (negative widths) solved
-3) Improved error handling in scanning AFM files
-4) Provided hooks to handle non 32-bit platforms
-5) Some cleanups
-6) Improved Makefiles.
-
-Ps2pk 1.3 release (92-09)
--------------------------
-1) Official X11R5 patches included in type1 library.
-2) The -a<AFMfile> option added to ps2pk.
-3) Problem with rendering of Obique fonts solved.
-
-Ps2pk 1.2 release (92-06)
--------------------------
-1) Ps2pk now computes the same checksum as afm2tfm (dvips5.487 or
- higher). This means that you have to update your VF and TFM files
- with the new dvips5487lib files.
-2) Bug fixes:
- - the MSDOS version now correctly reads PFB font files
- - a segmentation fault error removed (capri.pfa font)
- - an out of memory problem fixed (davysrib.pfa font)
-3) Added Makefile for MSDOS/DJGPP (Delorie's GCC for 386 systems)
-
-Ps2pk 1.1 release (92-04)
--------------------------
-1) Ps2pk uses now the same encoding scheme as introduced by afm2tfm 7.0
- (dvips5485). But default (for all English/American writing TeX-friends)
- the program uses the same encoding as is in the AFM-file belonging to
- the type1 PostScript font (normally AdobeStandard). So the program does
- not longer need re-encode to create a .cmi file containing the encoding
- vector and the WX values. These are read directly from the AFM file.
-
- Typical usage for standard encoding:
- ps2pk -X329 Utopia-Regular rputr.329pk
-
- or with EC.enc encoding:
- ps2pk -eEC.enc -X329 Utopia-Regular rputr.329pk
-
-2) I have added a -E<expansion> and -S<slant> option to ps2pk thanks to
- the patches I got from Lee Hetherington.
-
-3) I have added a MakeTeXPK script so that dvips and xdvi can use it.
-
-4) I have added manual pages and some documentation (README + INSTALLATION).
-
-5) Some inconveniences for MSDOS users are removed.
-
-Ps2pk 1.0 release (92-03)
--------------------------