HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: PFA to PFB (was: Re: AFM to PFB)
Date: 8 Nov 92 17:55:31 GMT
Organization: Bull, P.O. Box 22859, NL-1100 DJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

>In article <1992Oct30.224322.1525@bmers145.bnr.ca> masika@bmers141.bnr.ca  
>(Nicholas Masika) writes:

>    *  I have been able to convert AFM to PFM (using refont) but
>    *  haven't been able to convert PFA to PFB.  I have read the
>    *  FAQ and it simply says that there is a way to do it but
>    *  doesn't acutally say how.

As an experiment, I hacked a quick-and-dirty program to convert PFA
to PFB format (based on a program that does the PFB to PFA conversion).

It works on all PFA programs I have (and I therefor think it will work
on most (all?) Adobe PFA files), but I'm SURE it's NOT general purpose.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: crawford@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (James E Crawford)
Subject: Damaged font suitcases?
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:15:32 GMT

I have downloaded several of the newest font files from mac.archive.
umich.edu and discovered that when I try to open the suitcases (under
system 7) I get a message which says that they could not be opened 
because they were damaged. I also was unable to drag them into the
system file.

Can anyone out there tell me what this means and how (if possible)
to correct it?

Jim Crawford

Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: hue@coney.island.COM (Pond Scum)
Subject: That "PostCrypt" Type 3 font
Originator: hue@coney
Organization: Island Graphics and Hot Tub Repair of Marin County
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:36:36 GMT


I got a copy of the "PostCrypt" (horror movie title style) font from
mac.archive.umich.edu, but I wasn't able to convert it to a Type 1
with Metamorphosis Pro.  Has anyone been able to convert it to a
Type 1?  I'd like to use it in a UNIX application that only understands
Type 1 fonts.

Any help is appreciated.

-Jonathan		hue@island.COM
From: hjb@otter.hpl.hp.com (Harry Barman)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:03:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Ares' Chameleon
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.fonts

Data point:

I called up Ares - they are currently just taking names/address to mail further
info.  The product isn't announced so they don't have any press releases
either.  The person I spoke to said that Chameleon should be shipping late
January/early Feb.

Cheers,

Harry

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Subject: Does a pfb & pfm to bdf font convertor exist?
From: Charles Fee <CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:39:45 EST
Organization: Penn State University

After looking around (not well, I admit, so flame away if the answer is
obvious) for information, I haven't found anything that suggests there is a
way to convert pfb or pfm fonts (ATM fonts for ms-windoze) to bdf (Type 1
fonts for X)

I ask this heretical question because there seem to exist many hundreds of
ATM for ms-windoze fonts, but few Type 1 for X fonts (freely distributable
that I have located) And I know that a conversion must be done.  Is there
such a beast that does this?  a mac to X font converter would also work
nicely.  If anyone knows of such a program please let me know.  I will
summarize to the net if appropriate.
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: "prisoner" font
Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 18:18:57 GMT

>>> zeno@phylo.genetics.washington.edu (Sean Lamont) writes:
>>>> Does anyone know where I can get a font similar to the one used in
>>>> "the prisoner"?  Public domain would be useful, but if anyone knows
>>>> of a commercial one that would be good as well.

andre@rurutu.wri.com (Andre Kuzniarek) writes:
> Yes, now that I think about it some more, I agree, but Albertus is also  
> hard to find. One could probably get it from a phototypesetting house.  
> Have never seen it available electronically...

Monotype (1-800-666-6897) has Albertus in both Type 1 and TrueType -- I 
believe it's one of their own designs.

Better yet, their $19.99 Monotype Presentation FontPack includes Albertus,
Gill Sans Bold Extra Condensed (whew!) and Swing Bold (but in TrueType only
-- if you want Type 1, you have to buy it separately, probably for more $$).

[ \tom haapanen    "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
[ tomh@wes.on.ca                   "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
[ waterloo engineering software      "to thine own self be true" -- polonius ]
From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Does a pfb & pfm to bdf font convertor exist?
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:45:52 GMT
Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.

In article <SIMON.92Nov9112743@liasg2.epfl.ch> simon@lia.di.epfl.ch
(Simon Leinen) writes: 

>In article <92312.183945CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu> CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu
>(Charles Fee) writes:

>   After looking around (not well, I admit, so flame away if the
>   answer is obvious) for information, I haven't found anything that
>   suggests there is a way to convert pfb or pfm fonts (ATM fonts for
>   ms-windoze) to bdf (Type 1 fonts for X)

>BDF fonts are *not* Type 1 fonts for X - BDF (Bitmap Distribution
>Format) is the standard textual representation of *bitmap* (i.e.
>non-scalable) fonts in X.  BDF fonts are usually converted to a binary
>bitmap format such as PCF or SNF that is used by the server.

Yes, that is correct as far as it goes.

>If you have the Type-1 font rendering capability built into the X11R5
>X server or font server, you should be able to use PFB fonts directly;
>[instructions for doing so deleted]

I suspect that this is not what the original poster was looking for.

The problem is to produce a bunch of BDF bitmap fonts, at various
point sizes, for X software to use on screen. DTP and wordprocessor
packages under X, for example, need to do this to provide editable
WYSIWYG text which corresponds in terms of line breaks, layout etc to
the eventual PostScript printed output.

If the IBM contributed font rasteriser can take in PFA/PFB and spit
out BDF, great - please someone post details. However I suspect it
does not do this, and in any case people may not have R5 yet or may
not have the Type-1 server extension installed on their system.

I suspect it would be possible to get ghostscript to spit out suitable
bitmaps, but how exactly one does this I am not sure. If anyone has a
shell script or program that uses ghostscript to read in a PFA or PFB
(and perhaps an AFM as well) and produces BDF versions of that font at
a given point size (assuming either 75 or 100dpi screen resolution)
please post it. 

I appreciate that having the server understand Type 1 fonts is the way
to go, but for now there is existing software that uses bitmap fonts
on screen. Adding new fonts to such software is at present not
possible, as the screen fonts cannot be generated.

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From: "herb chong" <herb.chong@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: wanted: post crypt
Date: 10 Nov 92 14:52:20 EST
Reply-To: "herb chong" <herb.chong@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

LP>>Type 3? The version I have is Type 1. As far as I know, this is a fai
LP>>new font so I don't know why there would be a Type 3 version around.

LP>The font at archive.umich.edu is indeed in the type3 directory and is
LP>dated Dec. 9, 1990.

i have had the PC Type 1 for more than a year.

Herb...

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From: games@max.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Wanted: TT character mapping utility  -- time to go to work.
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:30:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: max.1992Nov5.143022.1

In article <92310.160226K3003E0@ALIJKU11.BITNET>, K3003E0@ALIJKU11.BITNET writes:
> Does anyone out there know how to change the mapping of truetype-fonts for
> MS Windows? A simple utility to swap two characters would be enough.
> 
> Ulrich
> K3003E0@ALIJKU11.BITNET

You need to write a program to do it, or you need to have a binary editor
handy.  Get the TrueType manual from microsofy (FTP.UU.NET) and look at the
structure of the file.  Then change the assignment table for what character 
points to what glyph.  Not too bad.  I recently took the binary editor approach
(I used patch on a VAX) to change the internal name from Arial to Helvetica
in order to solve a problem I was having with Wordperfect for Windows, and
having a postscript printer, with extra true type fonts loaded.  (The screen
font for helvetica was not getting selected correctly).

The True Type font file is laid out as a series of tables, so you just change
the one you want, and point to the other glyphs, not a big deal.

			john.
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: zisk@adobe.com (Stephen Zisk)
Subject: Re: Uses and Differences Between Type 1 and Type 2
Followup-To: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:13:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.185712.16193@u.washington.edu>,
yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi) wrote:
> 
> Hello. Recently, I've been shopping around for a good postscript printer.
> Most of these printers have upgraded to Postscript Level 2. Does that mean
> it uses Postscript type 2? I've never heard of such an Adobe format. My 
> previous knowledge was of only Type 1, 3, 4 and 5, but no 2. 
> 
> I have DVIPS and TeX installed on my system, but I am afraid to buy a 
> "Level 2" printer because DVIPS uses Type 1 fonts and spits out Adobe 
> 1 files. 
> 
> Can Type 1 be used with a Type 2 printer? What are the main diferences
> between Type 1 and Type 2?

You are getting confused between PostScript Level 1 or 2 (the language) and
Type 1 or 2 fonts (the font format).

PostScript Level 2 includes a set of language extensions to the original
PostScript language. It is a superset of PostScript Level 1, so fonts,
programs, and applications which work with Level 1 printers will also work
with Level 2 printers. The only Level 2 extension directly related to fonts
is the Composite Fonts extension, sometimes also known as Japanese or Kanji
font support, which also exists on many Level 1 printers sold into the
Asian
market.

Available basic font types on all PostScript printers are Type 1 (hinted,
encrypted, restricted syntax), which are the standard fonts in the printer
and sold on the after market, and Type 3 (unencrypted, less-restricted,
"anything goes"), which used to be standard on the after market. Note that
I do not call Type 3 fonts "unhinted." They do not contain hints which
are automatically interpreted by the font rasterizer, but can contain
manual,
"programmatic" hints if the programmer/generator adds them.

There is no such thing as a "Type 2" font, either on a Level 1 or Level 2
printer. Other font types (0 = composite, 4 or 5 = disk- or
cartridge-based)
are variants of Type 1 fonts, whose support depends on the environment.

Share and Enjoy!

Stephen Zisk (zisk@adobe.com)  Disclaimer: These are my personal opinions
and
Adobe Systems Incorporated     do not represent the views of Adobe Systems
Eastern Regional Office        Incorporated.
24 New England Exec. Park
Burlington, MA 01803           They pay me but they don't muzzle me!
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
Subject: (Re: Unicode Font Wanted) - don't render ligatures!
Keywords: unicode font international
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:50:48 GMT

jhelling@cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Hellingman) writes:

>In <6507@dove.nist.gov> gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan) writes:

>>So am I correct in inferring that TT fonts for Windows NT, as under
>>Windows 3.1, will not support professional-quality typesetting
>>software, as UNICODE does not support ligatures (sensibly enough,
>>since UNICODE is there to standardize the encoding of content, not
>>appearance on the page)?

>I think the use of ligatures is a part of the rendering process, that should
>show up on paper, 
No! ...
>		but not in the set of characters that is used to store the
>text. 
Neither, since they don't belong to the "information" part of the text.
>	The only program I am aware of that correctly handles this (having the
					    ~~~~~~~~~ No.
>ligatures in the output, and the characters of which they are build up in the
>source character string) is TeX. Why is it so hard to imagine software that
>can handle ligatures the right way?  

Ligatures are not merely a question of output style. At least in some 
languages (I am not sure about English here), there are rules about 
when ligatures are applicable and when not. The idea is not to melt 
words that are composed of other word parts too close together by 
ligatures. To construct an example in English: If there was a ligature 
for <ss>, it should be applicable to "mission", but not to "misspell".
For this reason, ligatures should be regarded as an additional layout 
property and should be handled just like hyphenation. I don't know of 
any text processing system which can do this.

Thomas
wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de
From: bwehr@eccdb1.pms.ford.com (M. Bruce Wehr)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Star Trek NEXT GEN. font!  --REQUEST--
Date: 12 Nov 1992 15:31:10 GMT
Organization: Ford Motor Co.
Reply-To: wehr@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: eccdb1.pms.ford.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

James E Crawford (crawford@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu) wrote:
: 
: If you want the font used to create the
: logo, download the Star Trek collection of fonts from mac.archive.umich.edu.

  I'd love to, but I'm using Windows 3.1. I've read the first comp.fonts
  FAQ posting (a *very* good primer) and, according to this, there is no
  good tool available for converting MAC fonts to Windows fonts (either
  Type 1 or TT). I haven't read the PC specific FAQ posting yet (RSN :-),
  but I don't suspect that it'll present any very good alternatives.

  Thanks for the pointer, though.

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From: pmacfar@eis.calstate.edu (Paul MacFarlane)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Converting Windows TrueType fonts to Type 1
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:48:02 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

djp33563@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David J. Pugliese) writes:
> 	Like the subject heading says, I'm looking for a program to
> convert Windows/TrueType fonts into Abobe Type 1 format.
> 	The 'wfn2atm.zip' file that seems to be floating around
> everywhere mentions a program called "WFNBOSS".  This doesn't seem
> to be on ftp anywhere.  Is it commercial?  Does the archive go by another
> name?  It seems like exactly what I'm looking for.
> 	Any help in this matter is greatly appreciated...
> 
> thanks,
> Dave Pugliese
> d-pugliese@uiuc.edu
> 
> 
WFNBOSS was a program on (pre-version 3.0) CorelDraw that converted Type 1
fonts to/from Corels proprietary font format (which is no longer used in
version 3.))

The cheapest program I know of that will do the job for you is called
Alltype.  It's a commercial product costing somewhere between 50 and 100
dollars.

Paul MacFarlane
Danville, California
pmacfar@eis.calstate.edu
From: bwehr@eccdb1 (M. Bruce Wehr)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Star Trek NEXT GEN. font!  --REQUEST--
Date: 11 Nov 1992 14:20:52 GMT
Organization: Ford Motor Co.
NNTP-Posting-Host: eccdb1.pms.ford.com
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    I recently got the Crillee font and printed a sample for my
    supervisor (who's really into both Classic ST and TNG). He was
    very excited about the prospect, and he brought in a book called
    "STAR TREK: The Next Generation - Technical Reference Manual" to
    compare the font.

    Unfortunately, they didn't match. The most noticeable difference
    was with the capital 'A' - the STTNG glyph looked like triangle
    with a small section in the upper left removed. The Crillee
    'A' didn't even come close.

    Now, I'm convinced that I'm simply suffering from a lack of
    understanding. Being so, I would really appreciate being
    straightened out.
   
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Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: andre@rurutu.wri.com (Andre Kuzniarek)
Subject: Re: Uses and Differences Between Type 1 and Type 2
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:05:06 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.185712.16193@u.washington.edu>  
yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi) writes:

> Can Type 1 be used with a Type 2 printer? What are the main diferences
> between Type 1 and Type 2?

There is no Type 2 font format. It was a format long abandonded by Adobe.  
If I'm not mistaken, Level 2 Postscript is the latest greatest version of  
Postscript with enhanced color handling routines and greater speed. Should  
be fine with existing fonts.

AK
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Weirdness in Type 1 Font
Organization: Trilithon Software
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 18:51:17 GMT



Any font experts out there familiar with FontStudio and Type 1
fonts?  I have this font with something weird in it.

I bought OneStrokeScript from the Fontek collection by Letraset.

Very close to the end of the font, in between the end of the eexec
portion and the stack of zeros that precede the cleartomark, there
are some characters that look as if they're part of a copyright
notice.  That would all be fine and good, except that the string
of characters start off with

    0x80
    0x00 (NUL)
    0x00 (NUL)
    0x00 (NUL)
    0x03 (control-C)

and then go on into ``1.0#1.0'' and so on.  Even if the NULs and
the control-C are stripped out, it's still not a valid PostScript
comment.  I have several other Fontek collection fonts, and have
only seen this problem with this one font.  The font appears to
have been created by the A. B. Vista Company, so if anybody has
any knowledge of their whereabouts I'd appreciate it.


        ........  Henry
From: snyder@acf3.nyu.edu (Kirk Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Is Cassady and Greene folding?
Summary: Why are Cassady and Greene fonts so cheap?
Keywords: Cassady Greene
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:02:14 GMT
Organization: New York University

Does anyone know if Cassady and Greene are going out of business?
I saw Fluent Laser Fonts volume 2 (120 fonts altogether) for
$38.  I was under the impression that these fonts were of
respectable quality, but this price seems strange.  Did my local
software vendor make a mistake, or are they clearing old stock?
Incidently, for some reason the Mac version is still $99.  It's
only the Windows version which is $38. 
 
-- Kirk Snyder
   snyder@depaul.edu
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: roihar@cc4.crl.aecl.ca
Subject: looking for OUTLINE scalable outline font for HP LJ III
Organization: AECL RESEARCH
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:31:10 GMT

I need a scalable font which is ftpable and is merely the outline of the
letters... My children would like to colour their own posters...
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: c60a-bh@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Ben Cottrell)
Subject: Re: Wanted: Post Crypt fonts
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:53:39 GMT

lpcasson@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Lawrence P. Casson) writes:

>In article <1992Nov4.070249.11024@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead) writes:
>>barretpj@cs.aston.ac.uk (Phil J Barrett) writes:
>>
>>>In article 021192122727@maca513.mv.us.adobe.com, pwai (Patrick Wai) writes:
>>>>Howdy;
>>>>One of my housemates insisted that he saw a font called "Post Crypt" (sort
>>>>of a parody of Adobe's PS fonts).
>>>>I am interested in finding out more and perhaps even getting it.
>>
>>>PostCrypt is available as a Macintosh Type 3 format font from mac.archive.umich.edu.
>>>It's the sort of font seen on low-budget horror movie titles. Nice.
>>
>>Type 3? The version I have is Type 1. As far as I know, this is a fairly
>>new font so I don't know why there would be a Type 3 version around.
>>

>The font at archive.umich.edu is indeed in the type3 directory and is
>dated Dec. 9, 1990.

It is Type 3, but it can be easily converted to either Type 1 or TrueType
using FontMonger or equivalent.  I might also add that it came through
the conversion with flying colors and is now in my cherished font library.

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From: pustule@cats.ucsc.edu (Thaddeus H. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Star Trek NEXT GEN. font!  --REQUEST--
Date: 5 Nov 1992 23:02:18 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: as215-ws-2.ucsc.edu


Hi there.  I'm looking for the font that is used in 
the Star Trek the NEXT GENERATION.  If anybody knows
of its existence, or whereabouts, please post or 
reply via mail.  Thanks.

-- 
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   "Hmmm.  I wonder what would happen if I were to type 'kill $$'." 
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From: simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Does a pfb & pfm to bdf font convertor exist?
Date: 9 Nov 92 10:27:42 GMT
Followup-To: comp.fonts
Organization: DI-LIA -- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
In-reply-to: CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu's message of 7 Nov 92 23:39:45 GMT
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In article <92312.183945CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu> CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu
(Charles Fee) writes:

   After looking around (not well, I admit, so flame away if the
   answer is obvious) for information, I haven't found anything that
   suggests there is a way to convert pfb or pfm fonts (ATM fonts for
   ms-windoze) to bdf (Type 1 fonts for X)

BDF fonts are *not* Type 1 fonts for X - BDF (Bitmap Distribution
Format) is the standard textual representation of *bitmap* (i.e.
non-scalable) fonts in X.  BDF fonts are usually converted to a binary
bitmap format such as PCF or SNF that is used by the server.

If you have the Type-1 font rendering capability built into the X11R5
X server or font server, you should be able to use PFB fonts directly;
put them into a directory, make up a "fonts.scale" file in that
directory along the lines of that which came with the fonts under
contrib/fonts/scaled/Type1, type "mkfontdir <directory>" and add the
directory to the font path ("xset +fp <directory>").  Use e.g.
"xfontsel" to verify that the fonts are found and can be rendered.

I recommend to install the "Contributed Type 1 Rasterizer Public
Patch" for best results.
-- 
Simon.
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