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HELP!



 Dear Sir,
 Our paper got accepted to a conference. I ran into trouble with fonts
while i was trying to put it in the required form. Basically, I followed
the instructions written in the readme2 file.

*************************************************
*ASME DETC requires Type 1 fonts for the Postscript (PS) to
*Portable Document Format (PDF) conversion.  The default LaTeX
*computer modern fonts are Type 3 fonts, which are bit-mapped.
*Bit-mapped fonts in PDF are grainy and hard to read.
*Therefore, the asme2e class uses Postscript Type 1 fonts.
*The times, mathptm, and pifont packages are part of LaTeX2e
*New Font Selection Scheme for PostScript fonts (PSNFSS).
*You can obtain PSFNSS and the Type 1 font descriptions and font
*metrics from CTAN:
*
*    http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/psnfss/
*    http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/
*
*If the PSFNSS distribution is too large, download just the
*
*http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/psnfss/psfonts.ins
*http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/psnfss/psfonts.dtx
*
*files and run
*
*    % tex psfonts.ins
*
*to create the times, mathptm and pifont packages.
*The associated fonts you can download for these packages are in
*
*    http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/adobe/times/
******************************************************

 At the very beginning, when I tried to typeset asme2e.tex, I got the
error message asking for times.sty, pifont.sty and mathptm.sty files. I
copied psfonts.ins and psfonts.dtx files from an ftp site.  (btw: It is
not possible to reach ftp sites from the websites provided in the
readme2.txt file. It says /bla/bla/bla directory is not existent.) I
executed the command

% tex psfonts.ins

in our unix system and ftped times.sty, pifont.sty and mathptm.sty to
latex2e directory in my PC. ( I am using PCTeX32 Version 3.2 .)
 
  Then i tried typesetting (just to see). It worked. However i got a lot
of substitution warning  messages like,

************
*LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape
*`OT1/ptm/m/n' undefined
*(Font)              using `OT1/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 56.
* `OT1/ptmcm/m/n' undefined  using `OT1/cmr/m/n'
*`OML/ptmcm/m/it' undefined  using `OML/cmm/m/it' 
*`OMS/pzccm/m/n' undefined using `OMS/cmsy/m/n' 
*`OMX/psycm/m/n' undefined   using `OMX/cmex/m/n' 
*`OT1/ptm/bx/n' undefined   using `OT1/ptm/m/n' 
*`OT1/ptm/m/it' undefined   using `OT1/ptm/m/n' 
*                 ...
*************

   Following readme2.txt, I loaded the files mentioned by 
*******
*The associated fonts you can download for these packages are in
*    http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/adobe/times/
*******
   I checked the file extensions, (.fd, .tfm, .vf and some dvips files)
and copied them to folders which includes files of same type. When i tried
typesetting afterwards i got a DVI document with green fonts and strange
characters. Typetter gave warnings like " /phv/ (/pzd?/ etc.) not found,
using /cmr/ instead. I searched files with cmr* and found a lot of
(apperantly font) files. Hence;

1. Am i missing some font files only? Is it going to be OK if i put these
font files into my PCTex32 folder ? And where can i find these fonts from?

2. When are type 1 fonts important, during typesetting or during 
conversion to ps format by dvips ?

3. Are there PC versions of dvips ?

   I will really appreciate if you could help. Thanks a lot.

-Ali