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From: rcpt@rw6.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers)
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
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Message-ID: <rcpt.714861633@rw6.urc.tue.nl>
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Date: 26 Aug 92 20:40:33 GMT
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jbrehm@acpub.duke.edu (John Brehm) writes:
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>I need to convert some postscript fonts for use with the emTeX dvihplj
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>drivers, but at sizes that differ from the standard 10pt. I can
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>easily generate fonts of arbitrary sizes with ps2pk (great tool!),
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>but how do I produce the right .tfm files? That is, if I include
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> \font\opt12=optima at 12pt
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>I get the error message (from LaTeX):
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> ! Font \opt=optima not loadable: Bad metric (TFM) file.
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I see that my ps2pk.README does not explain this clearly. So here is a try
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1) Get the latest afm2tfm coming with dvips. You need at least version 7.0
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of afm2tfm othewise the checksums of TFM files generated by afm2tfm and PK
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files generated by ps2pk will be different. Try ftp.urc.tue.nl:pub/tex or
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labrea.stanford.edu for the latest sources. MSDOS binaries are (or will
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become) available in :pub/tex/emtex/dvips.zip.
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2) You should have VPtoVF a fonttool coming with emTeX: converts a Virtual
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Property Font format (.vpl: ASCII) to Virtual Font format (.vf: binary).
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3) It is possible to name your TeX font `optima' but real TeX-ers
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prefer `popr', a name that can be used on MSDOS (and that can be found
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from grep-ing in the file adobe coming with dvips). You will need:
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3) emtex\tfm\rpopr.tfm
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4) emtex\pixel.lj\360dpi\rpopr.pk (360=12/10*300)
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afm2tfm Optima.afm -v popr.vpl rpopr.tfm
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vptovf popr.vpl popr.vf popr.tfm
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(delete popr.vpl if you like)
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ps2pk -X360 -v Optima.pfb rpopr.360pk
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5) To use them install all TFM, VF and PK fonts on their proper place.
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Check that they will be located there and use now within plain TeX
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(especially check that emtex\lj.cnf contains a line telling dvihplj where
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to find its VF fonts. I have no MSDOS machine nearby, so I can't tell what
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\font\opt12=popr at 12pt
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The bunch of files are necessary to map PostScript fonts to TeX (virtual
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Hope this brings some light,