BlueSky fonts and subfont

["Melissa O'Neill" <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>]

Has anyone had success using the BlueSky fonts with Basil K. Malyshev's
fload font loading program, especially the subfont program it uses to
generate subset/partial fonts...

When I use the BaKoMa fonts (also created by subfont's author), I get:

    unix% fload -P 35 parsecom-bakoma.ps > parsecom-fixed.ps    
    Process PS file parsecom.ps.new.
    Write font using statistic to parsecom.ps.fstat
    Process font 'cmtex10' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmtex10.pfb'
    Process font 'cmtex9' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmtex9.pfb'
    Process font 'cmcsc10' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmcsc10.pfb'
    Process font 'cmmi10' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmmi10.pfb'
    Process font 'cmsy10' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmsy10.pfb'
    Process font 'cmbx10' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmbx10.pfb'
    Process font 'cmmi7' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmmi7.pfb'
    Process font 'cmr7' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmr7.pfb'
    Process font 'cmr9' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmr9.pfb'
    Process font 'cmbx9' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmbx9.pfb'
    Process font 'cmti10' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmti10.pfb'
    Process font 'cmr10' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmr10.pfb'
    Process font 'cmti9' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmti9.pfb'
    Process font 'cmr6' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmr6.pfb'
    Process font 'cmbx12' from file '/fonts/bakoma/./cmbx12.pfb'
    Totaly 16 files are processed.
    unix%

... however, with the BlueSky fonts, it breaks:

    unix% fload -P 35 parsecom.ps.bluesky > parsecom-fixed.ps
    Process PS file parsecom.ps.bluesky.
    Write font using statistic to parsecom.ps.fstat
    Process font 'CMBX10' from file '/fonts/bluesky/./CMBX10.pfb'
    Unexpected end of Subrs: '
    'While 39 Subrs yet not defined
    Unexpected end of CharStrings: '
    'While 0 CharStrings yet not defined
    Process font 'CMTI9' from file '/fonts/bluesky/./CMTI9.pfb'
    Process font 'CMSY10' from file '/fonts/bluesky/./CMSY10.pfb'
    unix%

Since I have no idea what ``Subrs: '' are, or what ``CharStrings: '' are
in this context, I have no idea what is wrong with subfont (or missing in
the BlueSky fonts), or how to fix it.

It would be really quite useful if I could get this working, since in
the use I'm putting the fonts to, the exact advance widths of the BlueSky
fonts will (I believe) result in better output than I would get with
the BaKoMa fonts.

If someone reading this list either knows of an alternate program for
making font subsets or would have the time to investigate this problem,
I'd appreciate it.

    Melissa.

P.S. The task is converting some legacy PostScript files (without the
original DVI files that created them) from using bitmaps to using
PostScript fonts, so neither dvips 5.66a nor dvipsone's partial font
loading are likely to help.