Re: ghostscript message

["Agner-Nichols" <agnernichols@olg.com>]

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" <lehman@gmx.net>
To: "Agner-Nichols" <agnernichols@olg.com>
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 <agnernichols@olg.com> 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 <lehman@gmx.net>
>