"Lawson A. Whitney" wrote:
> Type 1 fonts often have a fonts.dir or fonts.scale included with them.
> Did you just miss it?
no, i have some cd's with true type and type1 fonts. the type1 have the
adobe & windows version (AFM, PFB &PFM). but no fonts.dir files.
> If there wasn't one, you should be able to use
> this to generate a fonts.scale, and mkfontdir, which the error message
> probably told you to run, will then copy it into fonts.dir. That's
> right,
> that's all mkfontdir will do for type 1 fonts. I haven't tried this, I
> guess
> I should before I recommend it too much more, but I reckon it'll work.
no, it only works with PCF, SNF, & BDF. according to the man page and
also it actually not working when i tried.
>
>
> Begin3
> Title: type1inst
> Version: 0.6.1
> Entered-date: 11FEB98
> Description: type1inst is a small perl script which generates the
> "fonts.scale" file required by an X11 server to use any
> Type 1 PostScript fonts which exist in a particular
> directory. It gathers this informatiom from the font files
> themselves, a task which previously was done by hand. The
> script is also capable of generating the similar "Fontmap"
> file used by ghostscript. It can also generate sample
> sheets
> for the fonts.
but wil it generate the fonts.dir file. the mkfontdir man page said both
these
files (fonts.scale & fonts.dir) are the same format, but are they the
same??
i'm wondering if it is even possible to use these fonts at all. would it be
easier
to install a true type server and install the tt versions i have?
thanks for your direction.
>
> Keywords: PostScript ghostscript X11 fonts install fonts.scale Type1
> Fontmap
> sample
> Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Macnicol)
> Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Macnicol)
> Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/xutils
> 28 kB type1inst-0.6.1.tar.gz
> Alternate-site:
> Original-site:
> Platforms: X11 perl groff
> Copying-policy: GPL
> End
>
> Lawson
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