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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 18:54:26 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ghostscript; visual quality of text
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Well, looks like that old Ghostscript is, in fact, finding the fonts.  I'd
try an upgrade so version 4.x or 5.x.

I'm on 4.03, and the output looks good to me.  The fonts are named
differently on this version too -- they're .pfb's, not .gsf's (no clue).
So maybe there's something in that.

I've got 5.0 downloaded, but not installed yet.  As soon as I need to print
the PostScript generated by AcroRead again, I'll be trying it out -- it's
supposed to support the compressed embedded fonts in the PostScript output
that throws older GhostScripts for a loop.

Randall Hopper

Larry S. Marso:
 |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.
...