forgot to mention that I installed ghostscript as a .deb; went back to the Packages for Slink and see that I should have installed gsfonts -- thanx Philip, that was a nice nudge
----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Lehman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Agner-Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 7:02 AM Subject: Re: ghostscript message > 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]> >
