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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 18:39:14 -0400
From: "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com>
To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ghostscript; visual quality of text
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Good question!  Here's the output.  Yup, butt ugly.

lsmarso@lsmarso>gs *ps
Initializing... done.
Ghostscript 2.6.2 (4/19/95)
Copyright (C) 1990-1995 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.
  All rights reserved.
Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
Loading Helvetica-Bold font from
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/phvb.gsf... 259192 239118 0 done.
Loading Helvetica font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/phvr.gsf...
299192 281904 0 done.
Loading Times-Italic font from
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/ptmri.gsf... 339192 331407 0 done.
Loading Courier font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/ncrr.gsf...
399192 390719 0 done.
Loading Symbol font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/psyr.gsf...
439192 429892 0 done.
Loading Times-Roman font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/ptmr.gsf...
479192 474082 0 done.
Loading Times-Bold font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/ptmb.gsf...
539192 528445 0 done.
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<           

On Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 06:06:58PM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote:
> Larry S. Marso:
>  |I notice that ghostscript produces a pretty lousy image (in terms of
>  |resolution) when I use it to display *.ps files of articles and manuals.
>  |It is *much* worse than a similarly configured Linux box I had a year ago.
>  |
>  |However, I note that xdvi displays much higher quality images, even of the
>  |postscript fonts (while it can't display embedded postscript images, which
>  |is why I'm trying to use ghostscript).
> 
> Hmm, just one.  When you run ghostscript from the command line, e.g. 
> 
>      gs whatever.ps
> 
> does it look like it's loading all the fonts OK?  Or does it say something
> like "can't find font X...using 'ugly' font".
> 
> If not, run ktrace on gs and see where it's trying to pick the fonts up
> from.  Can't speak for all versions but for 4.03, they're in
> /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts.
> 
> Randall Hopper