Ps2pk 1.5 binaries for UNIX platforms ------------------------------------- (Februari 1996) To install ps2pk in combination with mtpk (a configurable PK font generator) the following steps are needed: 1) Install the binaries for your platform and make them executable Some considerations - public cache PK fonts need to be stored in a directory that is shared between users in a safe way. A neat solution is to create the pseudo-user `pkcache' (/bin/false shell) and to give write permission to this user in the cache root directories. Another solution is to create a public read/write cache. But this is unsafe. As superuser: * create the pseudo-user pkcache (or something else) * make the root directories of the cache r/w for this user * change the owner of mtpk to `pkcache' and give it set-UID permission for pkcache (so that mtpk has write permission in the directories where the PK-fonts are stored) - PostScript resource database PostScript names are not restricted to MSDOS limitations. For example `Times-Roman' and `Utopia-Regular' are names of PostScript fonts. In order to locate fonts, AFM files and encoding vectors by their internal name mtpk needs to know the filename containing it. For this purpose mtpk needs a PS resource database (PSres.upr on UNIX). Unfortunately dvips currently uses its own non-standard method for locating the filenames containing the wanted PS resources. You have to add the filename of all relevant PS resources into the psfonts.map file. For example: ptmr8r Times-Roman "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc putr8r Utopia-Regular "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc