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Type the following command "search #? mode_def" in the directory where the Metafont nput files are. You should find a text file with lines like "mode_def = imagen % blah blah…", and "mode_def = NEC % blah blah ..". Those "mode_def .. enddef;" define the parameters for an ouput device. You then run Metafont like this: mf "\mode:=imagen; mag:=magstep(0.0); input cmr10", where imagen is your output device, 0.0 is the magnification of the font cmr10. cmr10 will be in the search path for Metafont (I guess; I don't have PasTeX) in a file called cmr10.mf. Of course you replace all three with values appropriate to you. You will get a cmr10.log and a cmr10.nnngf file. nnn will be the value "pixels_per_inch*(1.2**(0.0))" (i.e. times 1.2 raised to the magstep value). pixels_per_inch is from the mode_def definition. The magstep value usually has values like …,-1.0,-0.5,0.0,0.5,1.0,1.5,2.0,… etc. Preview font mode_def parameters are specific to an implementation's previewer. You will need to refer to your documentation on that one. If you need to make a new modedef, you can make a new Metafont base file with the program inimf, the input file plain.mf (mine is 22396 bytes long and has the name …; base_version="2.7"; on line 4) and your mode_def file. Type the command inimf "plain; input <mode_def filename>; dump". You will get a file like plain.blah. Rename it to mf.blah and replace the previous mf.blah file where Metafont looks for it. —–> Brian Simmons, Denver, Colorado. – via Whap!