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- From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry)
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- Subject: Re: (Help)create TeX pk/tfm from scanned image/logo
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 03:18:07 GMT
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- | After run through scanner, I have obtained the university logo
- | in WMF/PCX/GIF/CGM/EPS... format. How do I create a .tfm and .pk
- | file from that, so I can use them in LaTeX without \special and
- | DVIPS?
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- In principle, this is easy; in practice, it's not because there is no standard
- software around to provide this transformation.
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- One of the programs in the GNU font utilities (imageto) can read PBM
- files and output GF files. (Then you run gftopk to get a PK file.)
- Another one (fontconvert -tfm) can read GF files and output TFM files.
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- You can get the fontutils from prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu or any other GNU
- archive site. You need GCC and GNU make to compile them, though, so it
- may not be worth it to you for this task if you don't already have them.
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