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PostScript font installation
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  To use PostScript fonts with TeX and Dvips, you need both metric
files (`.tfm' and `.vf') and the outlines (`.pfa' or `.pfb').  Note:
Font concepts.

  To support the basic PostScript font set, the recommended (and
simplest) approach is to retrieve
`ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/psfonts.tar.gz' and unpack it in your
`$(fontdir)' directory (`/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts' by default).
This archive contains metrics, outlines, and bitmaps (for previewing)
for the 35 de facto standard fonts donated by URW and the additional
high-quality freely available PostScript fonts donated by Adobe,
Bitstream, and URW, including geometrically-created variants such as
oblique and small caps.

  `CTAN:/fonts/psfonts' contains support for many additional fonts for
which you must buy outlines (Adobe, Bigelow & Holmes, Monotype,
Softkey, Y&Y).  `psfonts.tar.gz' is a small extract from this
directory.  (For CTAN info, Note: unixtex.ftp.ftp.;
a copy is in the top-level file `INSTALL'.)

  If you have additional PostScript fonts, you can make them available
to Dvips by (1) giving them with appropriate filenames; and (2) running
Afm2tfm (Note: Making a font available.) to make TFM and VF metrics
for TeX and Dvips to use.  Also add them to `psfonts.map' if necessary
(*note psfonts.map::.); it contains everything contained in
`psfonts.tar.gz' and most fonts that come with Unix systems.

  Following are locations for vendor-supplied fonts.  Please mail
<tex-k@mail.tug.org> if you find fonts elsewhere on your system.

DEC Ultrix
     /usr/lib/DPS/outline/decwin

DEC Digital Unix
     /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1Adobe

HP HP-UX 9, 10
     /usr/lib/X11/fonts/type1.st/typefaces

IBM AIX
     /usr/lpp/DPS/fonts/outlines
     /usr/lpp/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
     /usr/lpp/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/DPS

NeXT
     /NextLibrary/Fonts/outline

SGI IRIX
     /usr/lib/DPS/outline/base /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1

Sun SunOS 4.x
     (NeWSprint only)
     newsprint_2.5/SUNWsteNP/reloc/$BASEDIR/
     NeWSprint/small_openwin/lib/fonts
     /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/outline

Sun Solaris 2
     /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/outline

VMS
     SYS$COMMON:[SYSFONT.XDPS.OUTLINE]

The NeXT system supplies more fonts than any others, but there's a lot
of overlap.

  Finally, if you have an Hewlett-Packard printer, you should be able to
get Type 1 font files for the standard 35 fonts from HP, if the freely
available URW Type 1's do not satisfy for whatever reason.  The phone
number for HP Printer Drivers is (in the United States) 303-339-7009.
The driver set to ask for is Adobe Type Manager 2.51, and the disk set
number is `MP210en3'.  Mentioning anything other than Microsoft Windows
when you ask for the driver set will likely lead to great confusion on
the other end.