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- From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
- Subject: Re: Installing new Type 1 fonts...?
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:31:34 GMT
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- duty@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Duty Programmer) writes:
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- >In article <ins217t.721905113@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
- >>Anyone got any pointers on installing Type 1 fonts into X ?
- >>
- >>Instead of having .afm files (as well as .pfa or .pfb), they have .pfm
- >>files, or whatever...
-
- >Just a wild guess, but if you mean ".pcf", then the files are the new
- >X11R5 "Portable Compiler Format" format. These are portable, but made
- >for a particular system; i.e. they will work on any X11R5 system, but
- >will have to be converted on the fly if the binaries are not directly
- >compatible. This would explain the delay you describe.
-
- >This may be way off, it was the "or whatever" that made me wonder
- >if you meant ".pcf".
-
- Nah, apologies...
- I'm talking about Type 1 fonts, not pcf fonts.
-
- I got one yesterday from cica (a windoze site) which had a .afm file - this
- was a little quicker, but the font wasn't particularly useful anyway...
-
- So is there anything i can do to speed this up ?
- (besides get a new motherboard 8-)
-
- Enjoy !
-
- Cos !
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