[tex-k] How Does One Create pk Files From A PostScript Font? -- solved

[Jay F Shachter]

Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Reinhard Kotucha would write on Thu Jun  7 19:27:09 2012:

> 
> Trying to create .pk fonts is a step into the wrong direction, IMO.
> It makes more sense to create a Type 1 font instead.  In order to find
> out the best approach, I need more details about your font.  Are there
> outlines already or are glyphs described with arbitrary PostScript code?
> 

The glyphs are described with PostScript code.  The only PostScript
drawing operators used are lineto, rlineto, curveto, and rcurveto,
except for the very end, where there is either a fill or a stroke,
depending on the value of /PaintType, which is extracted and consulted
(thus, regardless of whether you set /PaintType to 0 or 1, you are
telling the truth).

As Paul Vojta suggested in a subsequent reply, the command of which I
needed to be made aware was gsftopk.  The command

  gsftopk --mapline='OldJaffa OldJaffa  <OldJaffa.ps' OldJaffa 600

produced OldJaffa.600pk and, mutatis mutandis, all the other pk files
I needed.  After that all I had to do was move the pk files to the
appropriate directory, move the tfm file (which I already had) to the
appropriate directory, and run mktexlsr.  Many thanks to this mailing
list for giving me the information I needed.


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