Re: gfont problem with PS fonts on big-endian platforms (patch included)

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On 22 Jul 1999, Florian Hars wrote:

> Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr> writes:
> > default (defined in exbase.mf). If a German people could explain how
> > they use EC fonts with LaTeX, i could try to fix this. Meanwhile a
> > workaround is to copy exbase.mf into /tmp, edit it and
> > set classic_sharp_s to true, and then generate all fonts.
> 
> This is not exactly compliant with the licence of the ec fonts. For
> those who can read german, I have once written a more or less complete
> summary, it is available at http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=327893442

Sorry, i can't.

Another way is to use PS fonts. I have slightly modified gFont to allow
a syntax similar to psfonts.map. For instance, i added the line
  HelveticaBoldOutline    ps:phvb8r Helvetica-Bold "/PaintType 2 store TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc
in the Fontmap file.  One could try
  prompt$ gfont -F HelveticaBoldOutline-24 'OUTLINED'

Any line which is valid in a .map file could be written after the
``ps:'' delimiter.

There is still no way to specify such commands on the command-line.

Any help to provide useful Postscript commands will be great, i am not
very fond of those type 1 fonts.

Thanks to John Bazik, distributions are now smaller because compiled
fonts are removed.
A new alpha release is at
   http://imacs.polytechnique.fr/~barbier/gfont-1.0a303.tar.gz

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer


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