= Such Stupid Things =

Okay, guys. I have a little problem and if anyone can help me, it's the internet. I've been writing my thesis as of late, and I've hit a stumbling block. It's going to seem incredibly stupid, so prepare yourselves...

There's this font that I really, really want to use. It's called "Simplex Roman" and it's one of the original Hershey vector fonts developed back in the 1970s. Yes, I know that it's kind of ugly, and yes I know it doesn't scale well, and yes I know that I might as well just use Helvetica. But listen: every textbook and journal article written before 1980 uses this font on all of its graphs, and I think it'd be fun if I did too. The thing is, I don't know how to get it into version which I can use easily with Adobe Illustrator and the like, given that it predates things like TrueType by many years. I don't want to compile it in GhostScript or write code to export it via IDL or somehow wring it out of AutoCAD - I just want to use it in some graphs.

Is this even possible? It's free, supposedly, so I don't think it'd be illegal. Does this help? This? I'm typographically in way over my head here.