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diff --git a/src/devices/grops/grops.man b/src/devices/grops/grops.man index e3a49f1f..ac88e4f8 100644 --- a/src/devices/grops/grops.man +++ b/src/devices/grops/grops.man @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original English. .. . +.mso www.tmac +. . .\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half .\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent. @@ -1006,6 +1008,36 @@ comments) should be used. . . +.SS TrueType fonts +TrueType fonts can be used with +.B grops +if converted first to +.B "Type 42" +format, an especial PostScript wrapper equivalent to the +PFA format mentioned in +.BR pfbtops (@MAN1EXT@). +There are several different methods to generate a type42 +wrapper and most of them involve the use of a PostScript +interpreter such as Ghostscript \(em see +.BR gs (1). +Yet, the easiest method involves the use of the application +.BR ttftot42 . +This program uses +.BR freetype (3) +(version 1.3.1) to generate type42 +font wrappers and well-formed AFM files that can be fed to +the +.BR afmtodit (@MAN1EXT@) +script to create appropriate metric files. +The resulting font wrappers should be added to the +.B download +file. +.B ttftot42 +source code can be downloaded from +.URL ftp://\:www.giga.or.at/\:pub/\:nih/\:ttftot42/ \ + ftp://\:www.giga.or.at/\:pub/\:nih/\:ttftot42/ . +. +. .SH ENVIRONMENT .TP .SM |