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- From: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com>
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- To: Stephen P Lee <splee@morgoth.sfu.ca>
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- Subject: Re: Fonts in Word5.1 and Ghostscript
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- On 5 Mar 1996, Stephen P Lee wrote:
-
- > It seems that when I print from Word5.1 in version 1.99q7 for Linux I get
- > mediocre looking versions of Helvetica or which ever font I happen to be
- > using at the time. I realize that the printed fonts come from ghostscript
- > and I would have to get "real" postscript fonts and not the bitmapped
- > versions to get better quality. The question is this: if I add new fonts
- > to Word, will I have to add the equivalent fonts to ghostscript?
-
- What's happening is that Word is telling your "printer" (in this case,
- Ghostscript) "Hey, this document uses Helvetica; switch to that font!"
- Ghostscript looks through it's fonts directory and loads the Helvetica
- font from there. (yes, this is *not* the "real" Helvetica, but a
- public-domain version which does look pretty trashy). So, when you want
- to install a new font in Word (say, Zapf Dingbats) you will have to
- install an corresponding Postscript font into Ghostscript. I am not sure
- how to do this; if someone knows how, I would be very curious to find out.
-
- 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.
-
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