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Pavel, September 18, 1985 4:58:19 pm PDT

GFtoPress — Creating proof pages for METAFONT fonts

CEDAR 6.0 — FOR INTERNAL XEROX USE ONLY

GFtoPress

Creating proof pages for METAFONT fonts

Pavel Curtis

Abstract: GFtoPress converts the GF (``generic font'') files produced by METAFONT into Press files, one page per METAFONT character, showing an enlarged copy of the character and labelled dots at the control points used in the character's METAFONT description.

Created by: D. E. Knuth and Pavel Curtis

Maintained by: Pavel Curtis <Pavel.pa>

Keywords: METAFONT, Press, GF files, font, proofs

XEROX Xerox Corporation
Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, California 94304

For Internal Xerox Use Only

Bringing over the right things

GFtoPress resides in the DF file [Cedar]<CedarChest6.0>Top>GFtoPress.df. It relies upon several TFM (TeX Font Metric) files, all but one of which is probably already on your machine. If, when you run GFtoPress, you get an error from FS looking for a file called ``Gray.TFM'', then you will need to bring over a copy of [Fonts]<CedarFonts>Top>FontMetrics.df into the local directory ///Fonts/FontMetrics/ on your machine. This is done whenever you full-boot your machine, but if you haven't done so in a while, the grayfont TFM file may not be there yet.

Syntax

Running GFtoPress is easy:

% GFtoPress foo

will convert the file ``foo.gf'' into a new file ``foo.press'',

% GFtoPress foo.2602gf

will convert ``foo.2602gf'' into ``foo.press''.

Caveats

ő The press files prodcued by GFtoPress use a special font, the ``grayfont'', to produce the large images of the characters. Currently, this font is only installed on these printers at PARC:

Clover Menlo RockNRoll

It is relatively easy to install it in other places as needed. Talk to Pavel.pa for details.

ő The output of GFtoPress will be most useful if you have created the GF file with METAFONT running with mode=proof, the default.