[Devel] Re: help needed with wrfont.ps

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Did you submit patches to the gs-devel list?  I think that such patches
would be welcome...

Regards,

Tom

On 21 Dec 2000, Vladimir Volovich wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> "TK" == Tom Kacvinsky writes:
>
>  TK> GSF fonts are *almost* ATM (if you will) compatible:
>
>  TK> 1. The charstrings data uses readhexstring, where "ATM" fonts use
>  TK> readstring.
>
>  TK> 2.  The private data is not eexec encrypted in a GSF font.
>
>  TK> If you can change those two things, I think the font will work in
>  TK> ATM (and FreeType).
>
> Thanks a lot. Indeed, this was the reason of the problem.  There were
> some other problems, howerer. E.g., using wrfont.ps, the Subrs array
> was stored in a way incompatible with ATM.
>
> i had to make some changes in wrfont.ps to make the above changes, and
> now the fonts are ATM-compatible.
>
> Thanks again,
> v.
>