Re: Printcap for PS

[Patryk Łogiewa <silverdr%inet.com.pl@localhost>]

Napisane 19-Paź-98 przez: Ruben van Staveren...

>> Also, does anyone have experience using GhostScript with odd fonts?
>> I'm using ImageMagick to convert multipage PDF files to individual
>> graphic files. For the most part it works but occasionally GhostScript
>> will choke on an unsupported font with no substitute (Nimbus is one).
>> I'd like to know if someone out there is knowledgable about extending
>> Ghostscript's font handling capabilities.

>Hmm, if it is the courier is being used (read screwed up) as 
>a proportional font problem I can say yes.
>system is IRIX 5.3 with Ghostscript 4 or 5, I think 5
>(because of special PDF requirements)

>reading them with gv (ghostview sucessor, but much better)
>seems not to be the problem

>If I'm not mistaken, does Ghostscript not have some sort of fontmap ?

Taken from GhostScript:data/fonts.txt

The file gs_fonts.ps, which is loaded as part of Ghostscript initialization,
arranges to load fonts on demand using the information from Fontmap.

The Fontmap is also there.

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