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authorPeter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>2014-12-15 14:15:50 +0000
committerPeter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>2014-12-15 14:15:50 +0000
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+Path: tuegate.tue.nl!rw6.urc.tue.nl!rcpt
+From: rcpt@rw6.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers)
+Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
+Subject: Re: ps2mf
+Message-ID: <rcpt.714861633@rw6.urc.tue.nl>
+Date: 26 Aug 92 20:40:33 GMT
+References: <memo.585707@cix.compulink.co.uk> <ILH.92Aug20112742@winnie-the-pooh.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Aug22.112526.13957@cnix.uucp> <4847@news.duke.edu>
+Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
+Reply-To: rcpt@urc.tue.nl
+Lines: 52
+
+jbrehm@acpub.duke.edu (John Brehm) writes:
+
+>I need to convert some postscript fonts for use with the emTeX dvihplj
+>drivers, but at sizes that differ from the standard 10pt. I can
+>easily generate fonts of arbitrary sizes with ps2pk (great tool!),
+>but how do I produce the right .tfm files? That is, if I include
+>the line:
+> \font\opt12=optima at 12pt
+>I get the error message (from LaTeX):
+> ! Font \opt=optima not loadable: Bad metric (TFM) file.
+
+>Any thoughts?
+
+I see that my ps2pk.README does not explain this clearly. So here is a try
+to correct that.
+
+1) Get the latest afm2tfm coming with dvips. You need at least version 7.0
+of afm2tfm othewise the checksums of TFM files generated by afm2tfm and PK
+files generated by ps2pk will be different. Try ftp.urc.tue.nl:pub/tex or
+labrea.stanford.edu for the latest sources. MSDOS binaries are (or will
+become) available in :pub/tex/emtex/dvips.zip.
+
+2) You should have VPtoVF a fonttool coming with emTeX: converts a Virtual
+Property Font format (.vpl: ASCII) to Virtual Font format (.vf: binary).
+
+3) It is possible to name your TeX font `optima' but real TeX-ers
+prefer `popr', a name that can be used on MSDOS (and that can be found
+from grep-ing in the file adobe coming with dvips). You will need:
+ 1) emtex\tfm\popr.tfm
+ 2) emtex\vf\popr.vf
+ 3) emtex\tfm\rpopr.tfm
+ 4) emtex\pixel.lj\360dpi\rpopr.pk (360=12/10*300)
+
+4) To generate them:
+ afm2tfm Optima.afm -v popr.vpl rpopr.tfm
+ vptovf popr.vpl popr.vf popr.tfm
+ (delete popr.vpl if you like)
+ ps2pk -X360 -v Optima.pfb rpopr.360pk
+
+5) To use them install all TFM, VF and PK fonts on their proper place.
+Check that they will be located there and use now within plain TeX
+(especially check that emtex\lj.cnf contains a line telling dvihplj where
+to find its VF fonts. I have no MSDOS machine nearby, so I can't tell what
+exact line you need):
+ \font\opt12=popr at 12pt
+
+The bunch of files are necessary to map PostScript fonts to TeX (virtual
+magic).
+
+Hope this brings some light,
+
+--Piet
+