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cmps1 a la TeX
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This is a very embarrassing description of what I did to convert the type 3
fonts to type 1 fonts. There is probably a better way. This is how I did
it: First, I grabbed a random type 3 font from one of the archives. (The
one I used is called Thomas. I'll use that name for definiteness.)I started
by using a text editor to copy the Postscript comments from the Thomas font
into the cm font, changing the name appropriately. I made a copy of the
Thomas bitmap, then opened it with ResEdit. In ResEdit I used "Open using
hex editor" on the FOND. About half way down I found the word "Thomas". I
replaced this with the name of the font I wanted, noting that the digit
before the T had to be the number of letters in the name and also that the
space afterward was padded with zeros. I then used ResEdit to open the text
file containing the font I wanted to convert. I copied the two POST
resources from the Thoma laserwriter font into my font. I also changed the
type and creator to be LWFN and LWRT, respectively. At this point I quit
ResEdit.I then used the Laserwriter Utility to download my font into the
printer. At this point Metamorphosis was happy to convert my type 3 font
into a type 1 font that I could open with Fontographer.
Simple, eh? 8-)
I would like to encourage people to contribute to the conversion effort.
If you try this procedure and get stuck let me know--I *may* be able to
help.
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James Amundson
amun@midway.uchicago.edu