Old Metafoundry fonts

[Zdenek Wagner]

I am afraid that the PK files are of a limited value without the MF
sources and if you have the sources, you can generate the TFM files by
METAFONT.

Zdeněk Wagner
https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/

st 27. 12. 2023 v 23:54 odesílatel Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> napsal:
>
> On 27/12/2023 15:30, Peter Flynn wrote:
> > I have a partial set of old PK font files from the Metafoundry
> [snip]
>
> I am happy to say that Jonathan's suggestion of Georgia's web page
> worked, and I got email back from her this evening. Thank you Jonathan!
>
> The TFM file themselves are probably not available, so I may look at
> reconstructing them. A brief binary glance shows that the preamble (from
> offset 0 to the start of the plaintext copyright notice is noticeably
> shorter than in all the other (working) TFM files, making it look as if
> the files were truncated at the start rather than at the end. I'm not an
> expert in the TFM file format but it is at least well documented
> somewhere, and there are presumably still people around who know how the
> files are constructed.
>
> Peter