From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 15: 6:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04AB37B568 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 15:06:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id CAA18916; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 02:09:10 +0200 Message-ID: <393D75EE.E684B2B0@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 00:06:38 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Marx Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: typesmith? References: <393D6D87.99A18E78@bigshed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ken Marx wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in creating downloadable PCL fonts > for hp printers. Why would you do this? A vendor-specific font format is no good idea -- although you accidently named the secondmost popular format. > Does anyone know one or more of the following: > > 1. How to do this simply? Install Ghostscript. > 2. Where to find downloadable PCL font format specs > and/or intellifont format specs? At HP, probably. Expect a hefty license price tag. > 3. If amiga's TypeSmith is available free or commercially as a freebsd or > linux port? Ditto for other similar tools? No. Amiga is noty easily portable to anything except Amiga. > 4. any other ideas or approaches... Install ghostscript, connect your printer, print anything. It just works. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message