Newsgroups: comp.os.linux Path: sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!noc.msc.net!news.stolaf.edu!amcl2.math.stolaf.edu!johnsonm From: johnsonm@amcl2.math.stolaf.edu (Michael K Johnson) Subject: Re: Where is Ghostscript In-Reply-To: gtaylor@jade.tufts.edu's message of 16 Nov 92 05:11:48 GMT Message-ID: <1992Nov16.180939.12518@news.stolaf.edu> Sender: news@news.stolaf.edu Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN USA References: <1992Nov14.134002.1@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu> <1e3lupINNs8e@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Nov15.212430.9544@mail.cornell.edu> <GTAYLOR.92Nov16000906@jade.tufts.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:09:39 GMT Lines: 28

In article <GTAYLOR.92Nov16000906@jade.tufts.edu> gtaylor@jade.tufts.edu (Grant Taylor) writes:

yes, ghostscript wants its own fonts... however, i don't believe that they are actually necessary if you intend to be printing out primarily tex output (ie, dvips->gs), as i think dvips soutputs only graphics for it's postscript output. (i could be wrong, but how else would the output fit the billing of device independant and look the same as xdvi, which uses the tex fonts - in any case, gs won't use X fonts)

Depends on which dvi -> ps converter you have, and how you have it set up. It is possible to use postscript fonts in tex. For example, with dvi3ps fully installed, I can use the postscript fonts by doing, in latex, and the native ghostscript times font will be used. There are macros for setting any true postscript fonts you like. If you don't use this, yes, it does download pk bitmaps as a font – it isn't all graphics, but the fonts you use are downloaded as postscript bitmap fonts. Once the fonts are downloaded, it just selects those fonts in the same way that it would select any builtin postscript font, and sends ascii characters the same way.

Hope this clears up any confusion. If this causes any confusion, it is entirely the fault of the keyboard. Right.

michaelkjohnson