Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!memex!peter From: peter@memex.co.uk (Peter Ilieve) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: PostScript font downloading query Message-ID: <113@memex.co.uk> Date: 11 Jul 88 08:48:53 GMT Reply-To: peter@memex.co.uk (Peter Ilieve) Organization: Memex Information Systems Ltd., East Kilbride, Scotland Lines: 32 X-host: memex Does anyone know how to download an Adobe PostScript font from a Unix machine? Adobe only seem to sell fonts in Mac or PC format. I want to store the font on one of our Unix machines and download it from there, as part of a "TeX using PostScript fonts" system. I know that the font must be a PostScript program and as I thought that the PC files would be easier to understand than the Mac I bought a PC font. The printer font file does look like PostScript but it has 8 non-ascii bytes at the start, before the "%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0" and the bulk of it is non-ascii stuff after a "currentfile eexec". The file ends with 8 lines of 64 "0"s follwed by "cleartomark {restore} if". The eexec operator does not seem to be documented anywhere. The only other use I have seen is in the LaserPrep file from the Mac, where the "currentfile eexec" is followed by ascii hex digits and seems to ignore newlines, like "readhexstring". If I carefully edit the file, preserving the non-ascii stuff after the eexec but removing the 8 bytes at the start and send this to the printer (a LaserWriter) it complains: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: ^[t^KvL^L^Meb^?b ]%% presumably choking on some of the non-ascii stuff. What am I doing wrong and how do I do it right? Ideally Adobe would respond by saying they will supply fonts on 1/2 inch mag tape like they said they would in my old ring-bound PostScript Font Manual. Peter Ilieve Memex Information Systems Ltd. peter@memex.co.uk East Kilbride, Scotland