On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Derek Jennings wrote:
> Len. Search the list archives. This one came up a month or so back. I think
> it was Cilvileme who have a URL for some neat fonts, and also where to
> find Microsoft fonts on their web site.
>
> HTH
>
> Derek
>
>
> On Saturday 08 December 2001 06:50, you wrote:
> > Dear fellow explorers
> >
> > Under Mandrake 7.2 I had access to certain fonts which seemed to have
> > disappeared from my 8.1 system. These were Hershey, Antiqua and
> > English Gothic. No idea where they came from but suspect they might
> > be available on Windows systems. I don't have Windows installed so
> > cannot check this. Can these fonts be downloaded from somewhere?
Thanks Derek for the suggestions. They started me off on a long quest
which has only been partially successful. In short, no problem with
importing a hundred or so free TrueType fonts and converting them to
Type1. X can display them fine. StarOffice imports them and also
prints them, but PostScript still cannot find them. I have at least
one homegrown application which needs to print from a PostScript file.
This is an address label database written in Tcl/Tk and C which uses a
canvas to display a preview of the printed page - on screen the
typefaces show up fine. The postscript option is then used to capture
the canvas and place it in a file. In the file the font is correctly
identified: e.g.
%%IncludeResource: font Antsypants
/Antsypants findfont .....
What comes out of the printer using lpr (CUPS) is some default
typeface, probably Courier, indicating that PostScript has failed to
find the resource. Earlier I had used x2gs to process the .pfa and
.afm files generated from the TrueType font files. This set up
symbolic links in the /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript directory
back to the source directory for the .pfa, .afm files. It was also
supposed to place entries in the Fontmap file for all the new fonts
but in fact only wrote a couple of comments, so I added the entries by
hand following the format of the standard entries. That made no
difference. Further to this, I also noticed that the missing fonts
which originally prompted this post are in fact defined as entries in
Fontmap, and the files these reference do indeed exist, in the same
directory, but, unlike in Mandrake 7.2, they are no longer accessible
to PostScript. Why? Am I wrong in assuming that PostScript looks to
the Ghostscript directories for its resources? There is no
documentation for Ghostscript on my system, and none of the
information on the net has helped me understand how PostScript locates
its resources.
By the way, I would not expect you to answer these questions. Just
hoping there might be one or two experts reading this list.
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