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GS 3.51 on PC doesn't seem to find fonts

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Rutger van Hoogstrat #1 / 8	GS 3.51 on PC doesn't seem to find fonts I'm probably doing something wrong, being new in this area, but I'm having the following problem. Maybe someone could verify and prove me wrong. Maybe it is a buglet... NB. 1) The problem does NOT occur in GS 3.33 2) The problem is equal for gs386, gswin and gsos2 3) I don't mind using gs3.33, but I don't like things I don't understand... When processing my ps file, ghostscript needs the courier font, then it obviously can't find it, as it tells me its replacing it with Times-Roman. Then when it can't find Times-Roman it 'gives up'. I've tried specifying the font-path in either the environment variable and in the command line. The error did not occur in gs3.33 when I used exactly the same environment and command line. Rutger van Hoogstraten
Sat, 21 Mar 1998 03:00:00 GMT

scus.. #2 / 8	GS 3.51 on PC doesn't seem to find fonts Quote: >I'm probably doing something wrong, being new in this area, >but I'm having the following problem. Maybe someone could >verify and prove me wrong. Maybe it is a buglet... >NB. >1) The problem does NOT occur in GS 3.33 >2) The problem is equal for gs386, gswin and gsos2 >3) I don't mind using gs3.33, but I don't like things I don't >understand... >When processing my ps file, ghostscript needs the courier font, then >it obviously can't find it, as it tells me its replacing it with >Times-Roman. Then when it can't find Times-Roman it 'gives up'. >I've tried specifying the font-path in either the environment variable >and in the command line. >The error did not occur in gs3.33 when I used exactly the same >environment and command line. >Rutger van Hoogstraten I went through the exact same thing. I ended up reinstalling everything. Check to see if your FONTMAP file is getting hosed. It works now but I can't say why. Regards,
Sun, 22 Mar 1998 03:00:00 GMT

mab #3 / 8	GS 3.51 on PC doesn't seem to find fonts Quote: > I'm probably doing something wrong, being new in this area, > but I'm having the following problem. Maybe someone could > verify and prove me wrong. Maybe it is a buglet... I'm having the exact same problem. Let me know if you get an answer.
Sat, 28 Mar 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Piet van Oostr #4 / 8	GS 3.51 on PC doesn't seem to find fonts Quote: >> I'm probably doing something wrong, being new in this area, >> but I'm having the following problem. Maybe someone could >> verify and prove me wrong. Maybe it is a buglet... M> I'm having the exact same problem. Let me know if you get an answer. The same for me. I just unpacked the gs3.51dos and ini archives in e:\gs3.51, adjusted the GS_ environment variables and it complains that Times-Roman cannot be found. Is there an answer? -- http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 03:00:00 GMT

scus.. #5 / 8	GS 3.51 on PC doesn't seem to find fonts Quote: >>> I'm probably doing something wrong, being new in this area, >>> but I'm having the following problem. Maybe someone could >>> verify and prove me wrong. Maybe it is a buglet... >M> I'm having the exact same problem. Let me know if you get an answer. >The same for me. I just unpacked the gs3.51dos and ini archives in >e:\gs3.51, adjusted the GS_ environment variables and it complains that >Times-Roman cannot be found. >Is there an answer? >-- >http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet It may be that there is a control-Z (also known as an end-of-file character or EOF) at the end of your FONTMAP file. GS 3.33 didn't balk on this but GS 3.51 doesn't like it. I don't remember the HEX character for it but most Intel text editors put it at the end of the file. Get a Hex editor and remove it and see what happens. Regards,
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Piet van Oostr #6 / 8	GS 3.51 on PC doesn't seem to find fonts s> It may be that there is a control-Z (also known as an end-of-file s> character or EOF) at the end of your FONTMAP file. GS 3.33 didn't balk s> on this but GS 3.51 doesn't like it. I don't remember the HEX character s> for it but most Intel text editors put it at the end of the file. Get a s> Hex editor and remove it and see what happens. Thanks for the suggestion, but there isn't such a character in the file. I tried to use the standard fontmap and it fails also. -- http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet
Wed, 01 Apr 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Piet van Oostr #7 / 8	GS 3.51 on PC doesn't seem to find fonts I found the problem why GS3.51 didn't find fonts. Apparently (I looked into the code in gs_fonts.ps), GS3.51 now either lookups fonts in the GS_FONTPATH or in the fontmap, but not both. I couldn't find this in the documentation, so I don't know if this is a deliberate change or a bug. The code looks quite deliberate I would say. So: if you want your fontmap to be used, do NOT set the GS_FONTPATH variable, but rather add the font paths to your GS_LIB variable. In my case I had to use the fontmap, because I have a TimesNewRoman font that I want to use as TimesRoman, so I have top put the alias in fontmap. If you don't need aliases and all your fonts contain the proper names in them, you can get rid of the fontmap and use GS_FONTPATH exclusively. I must say that I am not happy with this choice. -- http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet
Fri, 03 Apr 1998 03:00:00 GMT

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