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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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