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Re: Fonts in Word5.1 and Ghostscript



In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.960307115339.324A-100000@starfleet.gov>,
Donald Burr  <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Ghostscript can also supposedly take Adobe-style Postscript fonts, so 
>that you can buy the Adobe font CD and plug in "real" versions of 
>Helvetica, etc.  Again, I'm not sure how to do this, and would gladly 
>appreciate some enlightenemnt.
Welp, I run GhostScript under both Linux and OS/2 (although not DOS), so the
following might be of help.  I just use the Adobe fonts that came with
ATM:).

My Fontmap file under Linux contains lines such as the following:

/Helvetica-Oblique              /Helvetica-Italic       ;
/Helvetica-BoldOblique          /Helvetica-BoldItalic   ;
/Helvetica                      (/mnt/d/psfonts/helv.pfb)   ;
/Helvetica-Italic               (/mnt/d/psfonts/helvi.pfb)  ;
/Helvetica-Bold                 (/mnt/d/psfonts/helvb.pfb)  ;
/Helvetica-BoldItalic           (/mnt/d/psfonts/helvbi.pfb) ;

Substitute the appropriate Linux path for /mnt/d/psfonts.
Under OS/2 the file includes lines like:

/Helvetica-Oblique              /Helvetica-Italic       ;
/Helvetica-BoldOblique          /Helvetica-BoldItalic   ;
/Helvetica                      (d:/psfonts/helv.pfb)   ;
/Helvetica-Italic               (d:/psfonts/helvi.pfb)  ;
/Helvetica-Bold                 (d:/psfonts/helvb.pfb)  ;
/Helvetica-BoldItalic           (d:/psfonts/helvbi.pfb) ;

These are, unfortunately, the Adobe fonts that came with OS/2, so I suspect
you will instead have paths that look something like those in my ATM.INI
file for Winbloze:

Helvetica=c:\windows\psfonts\pfm\hv______.pfm,c:\windows\psfonts\hv______.pfb
Helvetica,BOLD=c:\windows\psfonts\pfm\hvb_____.pfm,c:\windows\psfonts\hvb_____.pfb
Helvetica,BOLDITALIC=c:\windows\psfonts\pfm\hvbo____.pfm,c:\windows\psfonts\hvbo____.pfb
Helvetica,ITALIC=c:\windows\psfonts\pfm\hvo_____.pfm,c:\windows\psfonts\hvo_____.pfb

Similar concept, just give it a proper font name (look at the existing
fontmap for ideas) and the path to the fonts pfb file.

Have fun.

--Toby Everett


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