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- Subject: Re: Good Helvetica/Times fonts for ghostscript
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.053443.15493@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: edwin@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Edwin Ng)
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:34:43 GMT
- References: <1044@vk2bea.UUCP>
- Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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- michael@vk2bea.UUCP (Michael G. Katzmann) writes:
-
- >Does anyone know of a source of for the good-old-standard
- >Helvetica, Times-Roman etc. fonts (type 1?) that can be used with
- >ghostscript? The ones distributed with it are derived from bitmaped
- >fonts, and are less than optimal.
- >Is there anyway of sucking them out of a postscript printer (me thinks
- >that they are protected), or using Adobe type-manager fonts (these
- >look like they are encrypted (lots of binary stuff)).
- >Any help would be appreciated.
-
- Ghostscript 2.5.2 is able to use your Adobe type 1 fonts
- directly. Just put the fonts in the gs directory
- and edit the file fontmap with the correct file
- name of your fontfile.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
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- * Edwin Ng *
- * Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering *
- * University of Auckland *
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