On Tue, 21 May 2002, Gregory D. Collins wrote: > * George White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020521 21:14]: > > On Tue, 21 May 2002, Gregory D. Collins wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I'm having trouble with dvips and type 1 fonts. I installed Adobe > > > Garamond into my teTeX distribution, but dvips is not spitting out > > > correct postscript files; the characters in the generated output are > > > substituted by Courier. > > > > Did you install .pf[a|b] files, or just the tfm's? Are you viewing the > > file with showps or gs, or sending it to a printer? Is it a PostScript > > printer or are you rendering the file using ghostscript? > > I have installed .pfb files, along with all the files TeX needs to use > the font. (I used fontinst.sty to generate .fd, .vf, etc. files, and > afm2tfm to generate .tfm files.) The printer which I have tried to test > this on is a Postscript printer, and ghostscript (both gv and gs) fails > on it too.
So the PS file is bad. I would make sure that the fonts are OK by making a file independent of ghostscript, and try changing the remapping (G) and subsetting (j) flags to dvips. > > > The strange thing is that both xdvi and pdflatex generate correct > > > output. Also, examination of the generated ps file shows that the font > > > has indeed been put into the output. Sending the .ps file to the printer > > > also shows the Courier substitution, so it's not a ghostview rendering > > > problem. > > > > Is the font embedded in the PS file or are there just references to > > the font? Dvips lists the font files it uses on the terminal. Type 1 > > fonts can be installed as "printer-resident" or downloaded with the > > PS file. If your dvips configuration assumes that the font is > > resident when it should be downloaded you will get Courier. > > The font is embedded in the file. When I dvips the .dvi file, dvips > lists the font files on the command line. For instance: > > phd5.cs.yale.edu [5]> dvips -o test.ps test.dvi > This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software > (www.radicaleye.com) > ' TeX output 2002.05.21:1403' -> test.ps > <texc.pro><8r.enc><texps.pro>. <padr8a.pfb><padri8a.pfb><cmex10.pfb> > <cmr10.pfb>[1] Hmm. My texlive smapshot has: This is dvips(k) 5.86g Copyright 2001 Radical Eye Software [...] Maybe an older dvips got into your path. > Here "padr8a.pfb" and "padri8a.pfb" are obviously the Adobe Garamond > font files. > > > > I've upgraded Ghostview to the lates GNU version, and upgraded teTeX to > > > the latest snapshot (20020402), to no avail. Any suggestions? > > > > Divide and conquer. What happens if you use A-Garamond in a PS file > > created with something other than TeX? Ghostscript has some sample > > files to print a font table that you can edit (prfont.ps?) to > > see if ghostscript can find the font. There are too many ways to > > I have not really tried this, but since the font (should be?) is > embedded in the .ps file, I would assume that Ghostscript would not need > a local copy. Again, the funny part is that pdflatex (using the same > pda.map file, which I included in the "updmap" script) finds the font > and embeds it in the .pdf files perfectly well. Indeed, when I print the > PDF file, the document goes to the printer and looks great, but I would > rather not use the Acrobat reader every time I want to print one of > these files. This really points at a problem with dvips -- either an old (buggy) version that got onto your path or perhaps a compiler bug affecting your installation. I tend to avoid .dvi files. Dvips is a bit fragile (it is so easy to mess up the configuration) and it does not produce resolution independent PS files. Acroread has coomand-line parameters to print, and there is ps2pdf (ghostscript) and pdftops (xpdf). > Any light anyone can shed on this would be appreciated. > > Cheers, > G. I have AGaramond, but just haven't gotten around to configuring it on my system (it is used here for a report series). I'll try to get to it "real soon now" and let you know what happens. -- George White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Halifax, Nova Scotia
