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- From: als@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Anthony Shipman)
- Subject: Re: HPLJ4
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.112314.10537@bohra.cpg.oz.au>
- Organization: Computer Power Software
- References: <9211121821.AA01605@triples.math.mcgill.ca> <1992Nov13.185747.17513@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:23:14 GMT
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- >We really need someone to write and make freely available:
-
- >1 - a translator from METAFONT to PostScript outline fonts.
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- >2 - a DVI to PostScript converter that uses PostScript versions of TeX fonts.
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- >This will allow us to utilize the device independent aspects of PostScript. The
- >current DVI to PostScript utilities all seem to rasterize the output assuming
- >some fixed resolution (this is why dvips output looks so bad under PageView
- >or in a GhostScript X display).
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- >This wouldn't help with high-resolution non-PostScript laser printers tho'.
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- > Chris Flatters
- > cflatter@nrao.edu
-
- I am working on a similar project but in reverse. It is based on the
- X11R5 font server but will rasterise Postscript fonts and deliver them in
- a TeX format to a viewer or printer driver. The font sources can then in
- theory be extended to other formats such as TrueType transparently to the
- viewer or driver.
- --
- Anthony Shipman "You've got to be taught before it's too late,
- CP Software Export Pty Ltd, Before you are six or seven or eight,
- 19 Cato St., East Hawthorn, To hate all the people your relatives hate,
- Melbourne, Australia, 3121 You've got to be carefully taught." R&H
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