[Devel] Re: help needed with wrfont.ps

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi Vladimir,

GSF fonts are *almost* ATM (if you will) compatible:

1. The charstrings data uses readhexstring, where "ATM" fonts
use readstring.

2.  The private data is not eexec encrypted in a GSF font.

If you can change those two things, I think the font will work
in ATM (and FreeType).

Tom

On 25 Nov 2000, Vladimir Volovich wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i'm sorry to ask this question here, since it is not related to
> freetype, but i ask it here because there are many font experts here,
> and i have a chance to get help. :)
> 
> ghostscript has a file `wrfont.ps' which produces a loadable font in
> `pseudo-pfa' format for currently loaded font.
> 
> try e.g. to save the following in a file `test.ps' and run
> 
> gsnd -dWRITESYSTEMDICT test.ps
> 
> =========================
> (unprot.ps) runlibfile
> unprot
> (wrfont.ps) runlibfile
> /Times-Roman findfont setfont
> (test.gsf) (w) file writefont
> quit
> =========================
> 
> you will get a file `test.gsf' which contains a pfa font.
> (in this example for the Times-Roman font)
> 
> but unfortunately, the files created by wrfont.ps are not standard
> from the point of view of e.g. adobe type manager (in fact, any
> program which interprets type1 fonts but does not include a full
> postscript interpreter will unlikely be able to read this font).
> 
> does anyone know if it is possible to make standard PFA files for a
> currently loaded font?
> 
> (i need this to produce type1 fonts from traced bitmaps)
> 
>       Best regards, -- Vladimir.
> 
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