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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Where is Ghostscript
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 23:05:31 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- References: <1992Nov14.134002.1@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu> <1e3lupINNs8e@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Nov15.212430.9544@mail.cornell.edu>
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- Eric Scharff <eds2@cornell.edu> writes:
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- >In article <1e3lupINNs8e@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> James Michael Chacon,
- >probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu writes:
- >>From what I hear ghostscript compiles out of the box. So you can get that
- >>from any site that mirrors prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu directory. Try
- >>wuarchive first. As far as ghostview goes, it should also be on that site
- >>and should compile with very little problems.
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- >Does ghostscript require its own set of fonts, or can it use X Fonts?
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- From what I've been told, it uses its own fonts to render things and
- then passes them through an external driver to show up on whatever
- output you are using (X, paper printout, ...)
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- James
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