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 > using Alan Jeffrey's fontinst package, and the utilities that are
 > included with these, converting PostScript fonts to TeX fonts is not
 > very difficult - at least not for text fonts.  using a script that I
 > hacked myself, I was able to convert the entire Adobe PostScript font
 > collection to TeX fonts.
um, we have had this around for quite a few years now (since 1993 at
least). have you done something new? i am interested

 > behave correctly.  however, somebody who knows more about fonts than I
 > might want to convert the lot and make it available to CTAN.
have you seen what is there already?

sebastian