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[Devel] Re: help needed with wrfont.ps
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Tom Kacvinsky |
Subject: |
[Devel] Re: help needed with wrfont.ps |
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Sat, 25 Nov 2000 11:17:55 -0500 (EST) |
Hi Vladimir,
GSF fonts are *almost* ATM (if you will) compatible:
1. The charstrings data uses readhexstring, where "ATM" fonts
use readstring.
2. The private data is not eexec encrypted in a GSF font.
If you can change those two things, I think the font will work
in ATM (and FreeType).
Tom
On 25 Nov 2000, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm sorry to ask this question here, since it is not related to
> freetype, but i ask it here because there are many font experts here,
> and i have a chance to get help. :)
>
> ghostscript has a file `wrfont.ps' which produces a loadable font in
> `pseudo-pfa' format for currently loaded font.
>
> try e.g. to save the following in a file `test.ps' and run
>
> gsnd -dWRITESYSTEMDICT test.ps
>
> =========================
> (unprot.ps) runlibfile
> unprot
> (wrfont.ps) runlibfile
> /Times-Roman findfont setfont
> (test.gsf) (w) file writefont
> quit
> =========================
>
> you will get a file `test.gsf' which contains a pfa font.
> (in this example for the Times-Roman font)
>
> but unfortunately, the files created by wrfont.ps are not standard
> from the point of view of e.g. adobe type manager (in fact, any
> program which interprets type1 fonts but does not include a full
> postscript interpreter will unlikely be able to read this font).
>
> does anyone know if it is possible to make standard PFA files for a
> currently loaded font?
>
> (i need this to produce type1 fonts from traced bitmaps)
>
> Best regards, -- Vladimir.
>
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