Scribbling feverishly on May 05, Joel Hammer managed to emit: > Just messing with fonts and of course it is confusing me. You can skip most > of this veriage and go right to the last paragraph for my question. > > But, > I have finally figured out how to make enscript use all those ghostscript > fonts. They are really quite nice. To see all the fonts your gs will let you > use, start gs, then: > loadallfonts > All those fonts are available to enrich your documents. > However, I tried the gs method of seeing those fonts, but, it just didn't > work for me, so, to capture all those names, try: > gs > GhostScriptFonts > loadallfonts > wait a while, then: > quit > > You have all those fonts available to you, and enscript will use them if > you ask. > > One way to get to see all these fonts is to edit the GhostScriptFonts > file from the above step and leave just the font names in them. > eg: > > Baltar > Borg9 > CharlesinCharge > CrystalRadioKit > Droid > Make sure there are no trailing blanks. > Have a text file you want to convert to postscript (junk.txt in the example > below.) > Then, this one line script works: > > while read i; do i="$i"12; cp -a junk.txt $i.txt ;enscript -o $i.ps -f $i $i.txt; rm >$i.txt;done < GhostScriptFonts > Fun,huh? > > NOW, my question: Many of these fonts, when called by enscript, give a: > NO AFM file found, using default. > What the heck does this mean, and should I care?
AFM = Adobe/ASCII Font Metrics. I'm guessing enscript is looking for the font metrics for these new fonts and doesn't know where to find them. Perhaps adding the path to the new fonts' .afm files to /etc/enscript.cfg (AFMPath) will help? Kurt -- Of what you see in books, believe 75%. Of newspapers, believe 50%. And of TV news, believe 25% -- make that 5% if the anchorman wears a blazer. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
