dumpfont and postscript fonts

[Mark Callow]

In article <1990Oct16.233111.25039 at nas.nasa.gov>, bancroft at nas.nasa.gov (Gordon V. Bancroft) writes:
|> A while ago I got a font posted by Paul Haberli from this network.
|> I can make it work with postscript, but dumpfont wont read it (I
|> want to use it in the font manager, fm). Can this be done, and what
|> is "adobe ascii metric format".

The fonts that I recall Paul posting were PostScript fonts by which I mean
that the character shapes are described by little PostScript programs.
While NeWS can deal with these types of fonts, the font manager can't
since it lacks a PostScript interpreter.

dumpfont is for converting various formats of *bitmap* fonts into the binary
format used by both 4Sight's NeWS server and libfm.

Adobe ascii metric format is the format Adobe distributes metrics information
in.  dumpfont takes these files and makes the binary .fw files from them.

While we're on the subject of fonts, the forthcoming (sometime towards the
end of the year) release 3.3.2 will contain the full Laserwriter set of
35 fonts for use by NeWS and libfm.
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