From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 26 14:52:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA25316 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 14:52:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from imdave.pr.mcs.net (imdave@imdave.pr.mcs.net [205.164.3.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA25311 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 14:52:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imdave@mcs.net) Received: (from imdave@localhost) by imdave.pr.mcs.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA07914; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 16:50:44 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 16:50:44 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Bodenstab Message-Id: <199710262250.QAA07914@imdave.pr.mcs.net> To: kline@thought.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hershey fonts... Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: Gary Kline > Is there any way to use|print the fonts in the ghostscript fonts > directory? Specifically, the several Hershey typefaces? You mean "use with ghostscript"? If so, then yes... make sure your ghostscript Fontmap has entries for the fonts in question (the following excerpt is straight from the gs5.03 distribution): % Fonts converted from Hershey outlines. These are constructed and % maintained manually. These are also in the public domain. % % Fonts created by Thomas Wolff , by adding % accents, accented characters, and various other non-alphabetics % to the original Hershey fonts. These are "freeware", not to be sold. /Hershey-Gothic-English (hrger.pfa) ; /Hershey-Gothic-German (hrgrr.pfa) ; : : etc. You can also preview any of the ghostscript fonts with: Type this | | bash$ gs prfont.ps | Aladdin Ghostscript 5.03 (1997-8-8) | Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. | This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. +-> /Hershey-Gothic-English DoFont Loading Times-Roman font from /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/tir_____.pfb... 1965300 591291 1300092 13695 0 done. GS>Loading Hershey-Gothic-English font from /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/hrger.pfa... 1985392 621984 1300092 18820 0 done. Substituting .notdef for backslash Substituting .notdef for backslash Substituting .notdef for backslash >>showpage, press to continue<< >>showpage, press to continue<< >>showpage, press to continue<< GS> GS>^D bash$ See the comments at the end of prfont.ps Dave Bodenstab imdave@mcs.net