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- From: RIDGEWAY@u.washington.edu (Thomas Ridgeway)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts
- Subject: Re: Metafonts (TeX) to Type 1
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:09:32 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- Summary: query on mf2ps
- Keywords: mf2ps
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- In article <9145@news.duke.edu> jpeppler@acpub.duke.edu (Jane Peppler) writes:
- >From: jpeppler@acpub.duke.edu (Jane Peppler)
- >Subject: Metafonts (TeX) to Type 1
- >Summary: query on mf2ps
- >Keywords: mf2ps
- >Date: 27 Jan 93 16:56:51 GMT
- >I've been looking in archives for information on mf2ps, a program mentioned
- >here recently for converting TeX typefaces to Type 1. These archives said
- >it converted only to Type 3. Is there more recent information available on
- >this or other such programs, and the procedure involved?
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- There is no more recent version so far as I know: this is the mf2ps you
- have heard described as being tightly bound to the SUN (and to an old
- version of metafont: the authors modified the generated Pascal code rather
- than the web code for metafont).
-
- Some respondents on this thread have mentioned John Hobby's MetaPost;
- MetaPost, however, is a metafont-based graphics genration system which
- normally outputs PostScript code. It generates neither type1 nor type3
- fonts, though one could (in principal) use the generated code to assemble
- a font. Existing metafonts, however, e.g. CMR10, are written in a manner
- which generates a large number of (overlapping) contours which would need
- to be merged and rationalized. MetaPost is not a practical method to
- convert existing metafonts to outline fonts.
-
- cheers,
- Tom
- Thomas Ridgeway, Director, Humanities and Arts Computing, U. Washington
- Seattle, WA, 98195 USA ridgeway@u.washington.edu phone:(206)-543-4218
-