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To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>
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Subject: Re: Poscript on an Brother HL760 ?
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From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: 14 Mar 1997 08:21:19 +0100
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Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> writes:

> 
> This is definately by only complaint with Ghostscript.. the fonts really
> suck in a large way..  Are there any alternatives out there with better
> fonts? Can you even purchase better fonts somewhere? I have a HP DeskJet
> (660C) - is there a way I can get good looking fonts under FreeBSD, with a
> PCL thingy? Lately, the only reason I boot WinNT is for printing - if I
> had better printing under FreeBSD I'd probably newfs the NT drive and be a
> happy camper :-)

You can use normal Type1 fonts for ghostscript, both PFA and PFB are
OK. Some of them can be found in Adobe's Acrobat Reader. Just copy
them to /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts and add entries at the end
of /usr/local/share/ghostscript/4.02/Fontmap like this:

/Symbol				(Symbol)	;
/Times-Roman			(Times-Roman)	;
/Times-Italic			(Times-Italic)	;
/Times-Bold			(Times-Bold)	;
/Times-BoldItalic		(Times-BoldItalic)	;

The first column contains the fontname, the second the corresponding
filename with extensions. Beware of the copyright for the fonts; I
think personal use is OK.

tg