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- From: norm@ora.com (Norman Walsh)
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- Subject: comp.fonts FAQ: Unix Info
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- Date: 14 Aug 1996 10:35:00 -0400
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- Summary: This posting answers frequently asked questions about fonts.
- It addresses both general font questions and questions that
- are specific to a particular platform.
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- Archive-name: fonts-faq/part10
- Version: 2.1.5
-
- Subject: 5. Unix Information
-
- See also the 'utilities' section for more information. Most of the
- utilities described in that section run under Unix.
-
- The bulk of this section was contributed by Johannes Schmidt-Fischer in
- Jun 1993.
-
- Unix Font Formats
- =================
-
- Most printers attached to Unix hosts are PostScript printers. As a
- consequence, most Unix users are also using PostScript fonts. If you
- are not using a PostScript printer, you need a front-end, like
- GhostScript, to convert the PostScript into a format compatible with
- your printer.
-
- There is no Unix specific Postscript Type 1 format. The most often used
- (and most easily usable) format is Adobe's PFA format. The other often
- used format is PFB format. The PFB format is more compact (by about
- 50%), but in order to use it you need make sure that your font
- downloading tools are prepared to convert PFB to PFA on fly.
-
- Postscript Type 3 fonts are no problem, they can be handled the same
- way as Type 1 fonts.
-
- Most Unix tools expect to get character metric information from AFM
- files. You may have difficulty using fonts collected off of the 'Net
- if they do not include AFM files
-
- Font Installation
- =================
-
- Application
- -----------
-
- It depends. (Well, what did you expect me to say? ;-)
-
- Printer using an ExitServer
- ---------------------------
-
- Convert PFB fonts into PFA format if necessary and then send them to
- printer inside a wrapper like so:
-
- %!PS-Adobe-2.0 ExitServer Job
- serverdict begin 0 exitserver % 0: substitute your password
- ... % font in PFA-format
- %%EOF
-
- Or include them directly in your print job:
-
- %!PS-Adobe-2.0
- ... % font in PFA-format
- ... % other initialisation
- %%Page: 1 i % beginning of your job...
- ... % ...
- %%EOF
-
-