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- From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: RE: postscript to .pk
- Message-ID: <00965E8F.7163D260.15602@SHSU.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 12:27:47 CST
- Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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- On Wed, 30 Dec 92 14:39:53 EST Paul Duggan <duggan@siam.org> asked:
- > Does anyone have any knowlege of programs (commercial or otherwise) to
- > convert Adobe Type 1 screen fonts (.pfb) to .pk for use by popular
- > previewing software? Or Windows .fon format to .pk?
- >
- > I'm not terribly expectant, and we'll probably end up using an outline font
- > previewer. But I thought I'd ask... thanks
-
- This might do the trick. The home site for these is ftp.urc.tue.nl.
-
- --George
- ===========================================================================
- PS2PK
- -----
- The PS2PK package includes two file sets -- (1) the sources for Piet
- Tutelears' PS2PK utility (version 1.3), with makefiles for a variety of
- platforms; and (2) a set of 386-based precompiled executables. Both are
- UUENCODEd distributions of ZIP archives.
-
- PS2PK is a tool that converts a PostScript Type 1 font into a corresponding
- 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 Type 1
- 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 TeX 3.0 can handle 8 bits).
-
- 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 8 bits (the
- reason TeX 3.0 was released) TUG has proposed a new font standard
- supporting the full 8 bit range (in stead of the 7 bit). 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.
-
- To retrieve the source set, include:
- SENDME PS2PK.UUE*
- in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
- To retrieve the 386 executables set, include:
- SENDME PS2PK.386*
- in your mail message to FILESERV. The command SENDME PS2PK will deliver
- both sets of files via email.
-
- Users of anonymous ftp can come to Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) and find
- the ZIP files (PS2PK-1_3.ZIP and PS2PK-386.ZIP) in [FILESERV.PS2PK]. The
- individual files of the PS2PK-1_3 distribution are available in the
- directory tree rooted at [FILESERV.PS2PK.PS2PK13].
-
- Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
- File Blocks Save file as:
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- PS2PK.386_UUE_1OF9 PS2PK386.UUE
- through
- PS2PK.386_UUE_8OF9 79 (each)
- PS2PK.386_UUE_9OF9 69
-
- PS2PK.UUE_01OF12 PS2PK13.UUE
- through
- PS2PK.UUE_11OF12 79 (each)
- PS2PK.UUE_12OF12 78
-
- Approximate total blocks in PS2PK.386* package = 701
- Approximate total blocks in PS2PK.UUE* package = 947
- Approximate total blocks in full PS2PK package = 1648
-