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- From: ib@ivan.asd.sgi.com (Ivan Bach)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.apps
- Subject: Re: Free Fonts !! But not for Showcase ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.030155.16780@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 03:01:55 GMT
- References: <C0DnEw.K80@wm.estec.esa.nl>
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- In article <C0DnEw.K80@wm.estec.esa.nl> guy@wmsg02.wm.estec.esa.nl (Guy Brooker)
- writes:
- > Just copy them into /usr/lib/DPS/outline/base, renaming them sensibly
- The name of a Type 1 font file must match the PostScript font name in the
- /FontName entry in the header of that file. If that entry looks like:
-
- /FontName /Futura-CondExtraBoldObl def
-
- the name of the file must be:
-
- Futura-CondExtraBoldObl
-
- > How can I use these fonts
- The IRIS Font Manager in IRIX 4.0.5 and higher uses Type 1 outline font files
- it finds in the directory /usr/lib/DPS/outline/base. Link your program with:
-
- -lfm_s -lgl_s -lsun -lc_s [-lm] [-lmalloc]
-
- (square brackets indicate optional libraries)
-
- and hack away. You can use the Inventor toolkit to display 3D characters that
- are made from the character outlines found in outline fonts.
-
- Write a Display PostScript (DPS) program that uses additional fonts. DPS has
- been implemented as an extension of the X Window System. You basically need
- to write an X program that makes use of that extension.
-
- My demo program xdpsglx shows how to use DPS in a mixed-model program. You
- can get the source code for that program by anonymous ftp from sgi/src/dpsglx
- on sgi.com.
-
- You can add outline (PostScript) fonts to FrameMaker. See Appendix F in the
- SGI FrameMaker Reference Manual (Doc. No. 007-1641-020). You should also add
- the corresponding bitmap fonts to FrameMaker.
-
- If you create a PostScript file that uses your additional fonts, you can use
- xpsview to preview that file. If you want to print that file, you should
- check whether your new font is built into your PS printer. If it is not,
- you should download additional Type 1 font files to that printer. I posted
- an article about how to do that.
-
- You can use additional font files with the SGI Impressario. Impressario can
- use DPS to convert non-PostScript printers into PostScript printers.
-
- SGI has announced a version of the Adobe Illustrator for SGI machines. It
- uses Display PostScript.
-
- The X11R5 version of the X Window System can use Type 1 outline font files.
-
- You cannot add fonts to the current version of Showcase.
-
- Ivan Bach, ib@sgi.com
-