Date:	Fri, 18 Nov 94 12:49:42 JST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To:	UCKO AT RCKHRST1 DOT BITNET
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Graphical Environnement for PC-GNU compiler

Ron wrote:

   >   What would be interesting is designing some code that can read the
   >   Windows 3.1 font files (True Type) and generate the fonts that way.
   >
   >    | Author.............. Ron Grunwald                                |
   >    | Internet............ rgrunwal AT bluering DOT cowan DOT edu DOT au              |

and I replied:

   >AFAIK TrueType is just an encoded Adobe Type 1 font, so once you've
   >figured out the encoding Ghostscript will do the job.

and Aaron corrected me:

   Nope.  TrueType is a totally new format.  I think there are some docs on
   ftp.microsoft.com.
   --- Aaron Ucko (ucko AT vax1 DOT rockhurst DOT edu; finger for PGP public key)

Aha.  My bad, I guess.  I know that Ghostscript does X fonts native.
I suspect (ie, I believe that I read) that it also contains code in
the Windwoes version for using fonts available on Windwoes, presumably
including TrueType.  You might also look at the Ghostview for Windows
package.
    In either case, most recent version of Ghostscript is to be found
at ftp.cs.wisc.edu in /pub/gs/aladdin (or something similarly easy to
figure out).
    I think we should move this discussion to a more appropriate venue
(eg, email) until someone actually does something and finds out that
it exercises a DJGPP bug :-)
    --Steve

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