> I believe that an installation should attempt to build > the metric files from the local fonts, [...]
For the sake of argument, I will contest this. The default setup for the ps device -- analogous to, for example, the lj4 device -- should create output that can be sent to the corresponding printer -- Postscript or PCL -- using whatever fonts are provided by the device itself. As such, the metrics should correspond to those of the builtin fonts. Anything else should be delegated to an add-on package.
