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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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