From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: RE: postscript to .pk
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 12:27:47 CST
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On Wed, 30 Dec 92 14:39:53 EST Paul Duggan <duggan@siam.org> asked:
> Does anyone have any knowlege of programs (commercial or otherwise) to
> convert Adobe Type 1 screen fonts (.pfb) to .pk for use by popular
> previewing software? Or Windows .fon format to .pk?
>
> I'm not terribly expectant, and we'll probably end up using an outline font
> previewer. But I thought I'd ask... thanks

This might do the trick.  The home site for these is ftp.urc.tue.nl.

--George
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                                  PS2PK
                                  -----
The PS2PK package includes two file sets -- (1) the sources for Piet
Tutelears' PS2PK utility (version 1.3), with makefiles for a variety of
platforms; and (2) a set of 386-based precompiled executables.  Both are
UUENCODEd distributions of ZIP archives.

PS2PK is a tool that converts a PostScript Type 1 font into a corresponding
TeX PK font.  The tool is especially interesting if you want to use fully
hinted type1 fonts in your DVI previewer (instead of the unhinted Type 1
fonts currently used in GhostScript) or on a printer that has no PostScript
interpreter.

In order to use the PS2PK generated fonts your driver and previewer need to
support virtual fonts.  The reason is that PostScript fonts and TeX fonts
do have a different font encoding and handle ligatures in a different way.
With virtual fonts the PostScript world (encoding + ligatures) can be
mapped to the old style TeX world on which the current plain macro packages
still are based (despite the fact that TeX 3.0 can handle 8 bits).

It is also possible to use the PS2PK generated PK fonts directly (without
virtual fonts) but in that case you need modified plain TeX macros in order
to acces the new (changed) font features.  To make TeX really 8 bits (the
reason TeX 3.0 was released) TUG has proposed a new font standard
supporting the full 8 bit range (in stead of the 7 bit).  The 128 extra
characters in this new TUG standard are filled up with characters for 17
different European languages (see: TUGboat #10 vol. 4, 1990).  With PS2PK
it is possible to generate PK fonts from PostScript fonts according to this
new TUG font standard.

To retrieve the source set, include:
 SENDME PS2PK.UUE*
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). 
To retrieve the 386 executables set, include:
 SENDME PS2PK.386*
in your mail message to FILESERV.  The command SENDME PS2PK will deliver
both sets of files via email.

Users of anonymous ftp can come to Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) and find
the ZIP files (PS2PK-1_3.ZIP and PS2PK-386.ZIP) in [FILESERV.PS2PK].  The
individual files of the PS2PK-1_3 distribution are available in the
directory tree rooted at [FILESERV.PS2PK.PS2PK13].

Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
File                    Blocks  Save file as:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PS2PK.386_UUE_1OF9              PS2PK386.UUE
 through
PS2PK.386_UUE_8OF9          79 (each)
PS2PK.386_UUE_9OF9          69

PS2PK.UUE_01OF12                PS2PK13.UUE
 through
PS2PK.UUE_11OF12            79 (each)
PS2PK.UUE_12OF12            78

Approximate total blocks in PS2PK.386* package =  701
Approximate total blocks in PS2PK.UUE* package =  947
Approximate total blocks in full PS2PK package = 1648