[Devel] Re: help needed with wrfont.ps

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi Vladimir,

On 21 Dec 2000, Vladimir Volovich wrote:

>
> "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.
>

The Subrs array problem probably had to do with readhexstring vs. readstring,
correct?

Tom