"H. Peter Anvin" wrote on 2001-04-14 00:35 UTC:
> By author: Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > The Chinese Academy Of Sciences has published a set of scalable fonts
> > in several styles, but unfortunately in a proprietary format with
> > closed-source converters to PK format for usage with TeX.
URL?
Could this be a basis for 18x18cn.bdf?
> Is there any descriptions of this format? What kinds of curves does
> it use? We might be able to convert it to a PostScript Type 3 font if
> nothing else.
In case the question was about PK, this is a compressed bitmap font
format invented for TeX ~15 years ago by Donald Knuth and Tomas Rokicki
at Stanford. It is fully documented in the WEB source of the gftopk tool
and the Metafontware technical report, as it can be found in every TeX
archive. Tools to convert PK into simpler bitmap formats (pktopbm,
pktype, etc.) are part of every decent TeX distribution.
So at least generating BDFs from these fonts would seem like a rather
easy project.
Markus
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