From: fred@si.uucp (Frederic PETROT)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: afm for TeXPS with sparc printer and newsprint
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:18:39 GMT
Organization: Laboratoire MASI, Paris, France


I do know it's a PostScript problem, but it's because I'd like to use
TeXPS, so I asking TeX users.

I'm having problems with getting the right afms, font metrics, out of the
sparcprinter through newsprint.

First, I tried to ran 'getafm.ps', a file given in TeXPS, that ask the printer,
or whatever has the PostScipt capability, for font metrics. 
I can well print them, but not having them back to a file, so it's not a
solution.
I tried to run `postio', some code that should establish a serial connection
between the printer and a file, but it is not the
sparc printer that can interpret PostScript, so it failed.
I guessed I could use the postscript previewer, pageview, that comes with
openlook, sun x-windows adaptation, to run `getafm.ps', but it seems to use
other fonts than the interpreter for the printer, since results are not alike.
Then I searched for the printer fonts, and found a Times-Roman.f3b that looks
much like a PS one, from a fontname point of view, and I also noticed a
``makeafb'' programm that convert a .f3b to .afm.
I thought I had it, but ARRRRRRGH, the .afm format (2.1) is not at all looking
like the one TeXPS expects (1.0).
Shall I hang myself, write my thesis with the ugly cmf, go back to
Gutemberg, or use groff (nice but a little painly for so many pages)!

Thank's to anybody that could give me a hint on that!

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