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- From: crath@bnr.ca (Christopher Rath)
- Subject: Re: PC Graphics font needed
- In-Reply-To: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu's message of 10 Jan 1993 04:58:47 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:48:28 GMT
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- In article <1ioae7INNf78@life.ai.mit.edu> bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:
- >
- > In article <gram.726486773@aim1> gram@aim1.aztec.co.za (Graham Wheeler) writes:
- >
- > Hi TeXers
- >
- > I apologise if this is in the supplementary info; I don't have
- > a copy at the moment and I need this yesterday. I am looking
- > for a non-proportional font of the IBM PC character set,
- > including the line drawing characters. I have a whole bunch of
- > text screen dumps that I need to make into figures, and this
- > seems like the best approach.
- >
- > Does anyone know if/where such a font is available, or have
- > other suggestions about how to do these figures?
- >
- > A frequently asked question. Use Adobe PrestigeElite or
- > LetterGothic. It has all the characters in IBM OEM encoding.
- > OR used IBMExtended from Impramatur Systems in Cambridge, Mass.
- >
- > Berthold K.P. Horn
- > Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
-
- There is also a program floating around that reads VGA '.fnt' font
- files and converts them to the appropriate TeX .pk and .tfm files.
- Thus you can exactly duplicate your screen snapshots in your document.
- Try archie...I'm not sure where it might be found.
-
- Christopher
-
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