Re: Ghostscript Problem
Mike:
I'm using the Debian install of ghostscript (6.53) and the matching
ghostview install, so this may not answer your query, but
nevertheless....
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:53:38PM -0700, Mike Fontenot wrote:
>
> I'm hoping someone can tell me how Ghostscript
> (specifically, gs-aladdin 7.04 (testing)) is
> supposed to know where the ghostscript fonts
> are located (i.e., the pathname to the directory
> where they reside). Is there an environment
> variable that is supposed to be set to that
> directory?
The fonts appear to be under "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/" on my Deb 3
system.
> Also, can someone who has a testing system tell
> me where the font file n022003l.pfb is located?
> I.e., what do you get when you do a
> "find . -name n022003l.pfb -print"?
> (Note: the final character before the suffix
> is a lowercase "L", not a numeral "1").
"find" found them at "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/n022003l.pfb".
> (On my system, the above font file is located
> under "/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts", and also
> under "/usr/lib/grace/fonts/type1". Also under
> the above [...]/ghostscript/fonts directory, there
> is a file Fontmap, which is a link to
> /etc/gs.Fontmap. There is also a Fontmap file
> under "/usr/share/gs-aladdin/7.04", but there
> are no "*.pfb" files there.)
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Mike Fontenot
> mlfasf@attbi.com
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