On Wed, 24 May 2000, Agner-Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When running gv (as a replacement for ghostview), I get a >Ghostscript message '/invalidfont in findfont' (specifically, Times >New Roman).
Ad you don't get that with ghostview? Both are just frontends to gs and this is an error message straight from gs itself. >Any ideas about where to get additional fonts and how >to make them available for ghostscript? (running debian slink, >kernel 2.0.36 on a cyrix 486 dx). Put the font files in a directory of your choice, add that to the GS_LIB environment variable, export GS_LIB=/path/to/the/fonts:$GS_LIB and create a 'Fontmap' file in this directory. Format looks like this: % postscript name font file /TimesNewRomanPSMT (times.ttf) ; /TimesNewRomanPS_BoldItalicMT (timesbi.ttf) ; /TimesNewRomanPS_BoldMT (timesb.ttf) ; /TimesNewRomanPS_ItalicMT (timesi.ttf) ; See /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/Fontmap for examples. How to find out about the ps name depends on the type of font. For type1, there is 'type1inst' (this will create a Fontmap file for you). For truetype, the fastest way I'm aware of is using ttf2afm (in the freetype package) and grep the name from the afm: ttf2afm font.ttf | grep "^FontName" -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
