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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 11:10:27 +0000 (NZD)
From: kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: [Q] Making pk fonts and modes.mf
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> I don't want the users making pk files themselves, so I will be disabling
> dvips and xdvi from running MakeTeXpk. As a consequence I'll need to make
> all the pk files myself (well the common ones at least).
>
> 1) Is there some script out there that will do this for me?
>
> 2) What sizes do I make? We've got 300 and 600 dpi devices, so obviously
> I need those sizes, but I've observed dvips making a few pk files at odd
> sizes for the few documents I've processed so far. Are these the result
> of differing values of magstep? Should I make 300, 330, 360, 432, etc?
I had the same problem when I installed LaTeX, and because I could not
find anything I went into the painstakingly long process of generating
script files creating all the fonts, plus a few more. Sure I am willing
to share it - shall I put it on CTAN?
Volker