From jvh@cs.vu.nl Mon Sep 23 12:09:27 1996
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 11:36:27 +0200
From: Joost van Hamel <jvh@cs.vu.nl>
To: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
Cc: Joost van Hamel <jvh@cs.vu.nl>
Subject: Re: Type 1 fonts at 1200 dpi 


Allin,

Long time ago you wrote:
> I took a quick look at xxfonts.  It looks interesting, but it didn't seem
> that it would do quite what I wanted (I may be wrong). Seems like it'll
> make ps fonts into outlines, make them grey, shadow them, and so on, but I
> didn't see a "slight fattening" routine. 

Recently I used xxfont to fatten the outline of a script font
using the command

/Shelley-AndanteScript /Shelley-AndanteScriptVisible
   [
     [1 0]       % draw character outline: thickness=1, gray=0 (black)
     [0 0]        % fill its interior with black.
   ] BorderFont

and it works.

Joost

From jvh@cs.vu.nl Tue Sep 24 17:25:14 1996
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:29:50 +0200
From: Joost van Hamel <jvh@cs.vu.nl>
To: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
Cc: jvh@cs.vu.nl
Subject: Re: xxfonts 

I have a file psa.pfs containing:

----------------------------------------------------
/Shelley-AndanteScript /Shelley-AndanteScriptVisible
   [
%     [-1200 -1000]   % move 
     [1 0]       % draw character outline: thickness=2, gray=0 (black)
     [0 0]        % fill its interior with black.
   ] BorderFont
----------------------------------------------------

Then I have in my fonts.map the line

psa0 Shelley-AndanteScriptVisible <border.pro <psa.pfs <Shelley-AndanteScript.pfb

Here psa0 is the 'raw font' used by the virtual font psa.vf

Now everything goes automatic, but I guess that when using several 'bordered'
fonts, border.pro gets loaded several times, so when you copy this,
you'd better remove '<border.pro' and use -hborder.pro.
Hopefully everything will be fine. Please let me know.

Joost

Allin notes:  Yes, this works fine.  Note that both border.pro
and any .pfs files you create should be placed in a directory
that is searched by dvips.