On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 +0000 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Len Lawrence wrote: >> >> ------------------------ all snipped ---------------------- > Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and > so here is my best try, > > ---------------------- snip snip snip ---------------------- Ladies, Gentleman, and script kiddies. Done it! Retreading old ground, I discovered the exact prescription to allow ghostscript to locate the new fonts for postscript files. Since gv was unable to render them either, I figured that it was purely a ghostscript problem - nothing to do with CUPS. GS finds the font resources in the ghostscript and Type1 directories under /usr/share/fonts/defaults. Indexing is performed through a Fontmap file in ./ghostscript, but in Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 this is a bad link, pointing to lib/Fontmap.GS in the ghostscript installation directories. This was probably the case with 8.1 also, and may be carried into 9.1. The link references the wrong (older) version of Ghostscript. Anyway, I repaired that link and carried out the following operations (using Verdana-BoldItalic as an example): cd /usr/share/fonts/msfonts # Generate Type1 fonts from TrueType ./ttf2pt1 -e verdanaz.ttf verdanaz # Copy the font metric file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript # Copy the ASCII font file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.pfa /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont The line %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic appears in the document header. I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution to this problem. Time to get a life I think. -- Len Lawrence ---------------------------------------------------------- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. ----------------------------------------------------------
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