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- From: Karsten_Schneeberger@confusion.rmc.de (Karsten Schneeberger)
- Subject: Ghostscript & Fonts
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- DB> What's happening is that Word is telling your "printer" (in this case,
- DB> Ghostscript) "Hey, this document uses Helvetica; switch to that font!"
- DB> Ghostscript looks through it's fonts directory and loads the Helvetica
- DB> font from there. (yes, this is *not* the "real" Helvetica, but a
- DB> public-domain version which does look pretty trashy). So, when you want
- DB> to install a new font in Word (say, Zapf Dingbats) you will have to
- DB> install an corresponding Postscript font into Ghostscript. I am not
- DB> sure how to do this; if someone knows how, I would be very curious to
- DB> find out.
- DB>
- DB> Ghostscript can also supposedly take Adobe-style Postscript fonts, so
- DB> that you can buy the Adobe font CD and plug in "real" versions of
- DB> Helvetica, etc. Again, I'm not sure how to do this, and would gladly
- DB> appreciate some enlightenemnt.
-
- You have to adjust the Fontmap like this:
-
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- /AvantGarde-Book (agw_____.pfb) ;
- /AvantGarde-BookOblique (agwo____.pfb) ;
- /AvantGarde-Demi (agd_____.pfb) ;
- /AvantGarde-DemiOblique (agdo____.pfb) ;
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- /Bookman-Light (bkl_____.pfb) ;
- /Bookman-LightItalic (bkli____.pfb) ;
- /Bookman-Demi (bkd_____.pfb) ;
- /Bookman-DemiItalic (bkdi____.pfb) ;
-
- /Courier (cour.pfb) ;
- /Courier-Oblique /Courier-Italic ;
- /Courier-Italic (couri.pfb) ;
- /Courier-Bold (courb.pfb) ;
- /Courier-BoldOblique /Courier-BoldItalic ;
- /Courier-BoldItalic (courbi.pfb) ;
-
- /Helvetica (helv.pfb) ;
- /Helvetica-Oblique /Helvetica-Italic ;
- /Helvetica-Italic (helvi.pfb) ;
- /Helvetica-Bold (helvb.pfb) ;
- /Helvetica-BoldOblique /Helvetica-BoldItalic ;
- /Helvetica-BoldItalic (helvbi.pfb) ;
-
- /Helvetica-Narrow /Sans-Narrow ;
- /Sans-Narrow (hln_____.pfb) ;
-
- /NewCenturySchlbk-Roman /CenturySchlbk-Roman ;
- /CenturySchlbk-Roman (ncr_____.pfb) ;
- /NewCenturySchlbk-Italic /CenturySchlbk-Italic ;
- /CenturySchlbk-Italic (nci_____.pfb) ;
- /NewCenturySchlbk-Bold /CenturySchlbk-Bold ;
- /CenturySchlbk-Bold (ncb_____.pfb) ;
- /NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic /CenturySchlbk-BoldItalic ;
- /CenturySchlbk-BoldItalic (ncbi____.pfb)
-
- /Palatino-Roman /Palton-Roman ;
- /Palton-Roman (por_____.pfb) ;
- /Palatino-Italic /Palton-Italic ;
- /Palton-Italic (poi_____.pfb) ;
- /Palatino-Bold /Palton-Bold ;
- /Palton-Bold (pob_____.pfb) ;
- /Palatino-BoldItalic /Palton-BoldItalic ;
- /Palton-BoldItalic (pobi____.pfb) ;
-
- /Symbol (sy______.pfb) ;
-
- /Times-Roman /TimesNewRoman ;
- /TimesNewRoman (tnr.pfb) ;
- /Times-Italic /TimesNewRoman-Italic ;
- /TimesNewRoman-Italic (tnri.pfb) ;
- /Times-Bold /TimesNewRoman-Bold ;
- /TimesNewRoman-Bold (tnrb.pfb) ;
- /Times-BoldItalic /TimesNewRoman-BoldItalic ;
- /TimesNewRoman-BoldItalic (tnrbi.pfb) ;
-
- /ZapfChancery-Oblique /ZapfChancery-MediumItalic ;
- /ZapfChancery-MediumItalic (zcmi____.pfb) ;
-
- /ZapfDingbats (zd______.pfb) ;
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-
- I always download the fonts while printing to file from Windows Apps,
- so the Fontmap is used by Ghostscript only when looking for a font not
- already built into the printer (Ghostscript). As you can't download while
- printing from executor (uses only bitmapped Fonts), ghostscript will use
- the Fontmap or does some intelligent font substitution (to Courier or some
- other Font) by itself. If it looks for a font like 'Garamond', that is not
- listed in Fontmap, Ghostscript will do the substitution.
-
- OK, lets install the Futura-Book: Copy the font fu______.pfb that you
- bought from Adobe to the Ghostscript font directory. If you don't have the
- pc-font, you can use REFONT.EXE to convert the mac resource of 'FuturBol'
- to fu______.pfb (don' know if really necessary). The Fontmap entry would be:
-
- /Futura-Book (fu______.pfb);
-
- Now you want to use Helvetica-Narrow, but you have only Sans-Narrow that
- you want to install in Fontmap. Look at my Fontmap how to tell Ghostscript
- to use Sans-Narrow when printing from word with Helvetica-Narrow.
-
- -Karsten
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