On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:17:47AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Miernik] > > gs-common package depends on gsfonts package, what if I don't want to > > use these Type 1 fonts at all, and would purge the gsfonts package. > > Would GS work with TTF fonts which are on my system instead? > > gs is a PostScript interpreter. The PostScript language spec requires > a specific set of 14 fonts to be present. Can you list these 14 fonts, which of these 35 fonts are "the 14 required"? szrenica:~$ fc-list | sort | grep -v DejaVu Century Schoolbook L:style=Bold Century Schoolbook L:style=Bold Italic Century Schoolbook L:style=Italic Century Schoolbook L:style=Roman Dingbats:style=Regular Nimbus Mono L:style=Bold Nimbus Mono L:style=Bold Oblique Nimbus Mono L:style=Regular Nimbus Mono L:style=Regular Oblique Nimbus Roman No9 L:style=Medium Nimbus Roman No9 L:style=Medium Italic Nimbus Roman No9 L:style=Regular Nimbus Roman No9 L:style=Regular Italic Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed Italic Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Italic Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed Italic Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Italic Standard Symbols L:style=Regular URW Bookman L:style=Demi Bold URW Bookman L:style=Demi Bold Italic URW Bookman L:style=Light URW Bookman L:style=Light Italic URW Chancery L:style=Medium Italic URW Gothic L:style=Book URW Gothic L:style=Book Oblique URW Gothic L:style=Demi URW Gothic L:style=Demi Oblique URW Palladio L:style=Bold URW Palladio L:style=Bold Italic URW Palladio L:style=Italic URW Palladio L:style=Roman szrenica:~$ > (Whether they are Type 1 or Type 2 or Type 42 doesn't really matter.) > If a document wants to use other fonts, it normally has to embed them, > but any PostScript document can freely assume that the standard fonts > will be present. > > So tell us. Is gs able to determine from among your TrueType fonts > which ones might have faces and metrics similar enough to the standard > PostScript ones to be substituted? Can it do this on any system with > any mix of TrueType fonts? Are you sure? szrenica:~$ fc-list | sort | grep Deja DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Bold DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=BoldOblique DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Oblique DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold DejaVu Sans Mono:style=BoldOb DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Oblique DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Roman DejaVu Sans:style=Bold DejaVu Sans:style=BoldOblique DejaVu Sans:style=Book DejaVu Sans:style=Oblique DejaVu Serif Condensed:style=Bold DejaVu Serif Condensed:style=BoldOblique DejaVu Serif Condensed:style=Condensed DejaVu Serif Condensed:style=Oblique DejaVu Serif:style=Bold DejaVu Serif:style=BoldOblique DejaVu Serif:style=Oblique DejaVu Serif:style=Roman szrenica:~$ I am not proposing to drop the gsfonts dependency completely, but I would like to be changed to "gsfonts | ttf-dejavu" if possible. If some other fonts would meet the criteria of the 14-font Postscript standard, these could be added as alternatives too. -- Miernik _________________________ xmpp:miernik@amessage.info ___________________/_______________________/ mailto:miernik@ffii.org Protect Europe from a legal disaster. Petition against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/index_html?LANG=en
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