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diff --git a/doc/Fonts.htm b/doc/Fonts.htm deleted file mode 100644 index ea32a808..00000000 --- a/doc/Fonts.htm +++ /dev/null @@ -1,348 +0,0 @@ -<!doctype html> -<html lang="en"> -<head> - <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> - <meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=yes, initial-scale=1, width=device-width"> - <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Sans+Pro:200,200i,300,300i,400,400i,600,600i,700,700i,900,900i" rel="stylesheet"> - <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.svg"> - <title>Fonts and Font Facilities Supplied with Ghostscript</title> - <link href="default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> -</head> - -<body> - <header><div class="title"><a href="index.html"><h1 aria-label="title">Ghostscript documentation</h1><h2 aria-label="version"></h2></a></div><a href="Search.htm" aria-label="Search" id="searchSite"><div class="search"></div></a></header> - <main> - <article> - <div class="outer"> - - <div class="inner"> -<!--START EDITING HERE--> - -<h1>Fonts and Font Facilities Supplied with Ghostscript</h1> - -<h2><a name="toc"></a>Table of contents</h2> -<ul class="toc"> - <li><a href="#About">About Ghostscript fonts</a></li> - <li><a href="#Free_fonts">Ghostscript's free fonts</a></li> - <li><a href="#Get_fonts">How Ghostscript gets fonts when it runs</a></li> - <li><a href="#Platform_fonts">Platform fonts</a></li> - <li><a href="#Add_fonts">Adding your own fonts</a></li> - <li> - <ul> - <li><a href="#Convert_BDF">Converting BDF fonts</a></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li><a href="#For_developers">For developers only</a></li> - <li><a href="#Use_gs_fonts_with_X">Using Ghostscript fonts on X Windows displays</a></li> - <li> - <ul> - <li><a href="#Using_xset">Using <code>xset</code></a></li> - <li><a href="#Font_permanent_installation">Permanent installation</a></li> - <li> - <ul> - <li><a href="#Configure_xfs">Configuring the <code>xfs</code> font server</a></li> - <li><a href="#Configure_Xfree86">Xfree86 display servers</a></li> - </ul> - </li> - </ul> - </li> -</ul> - -<!-- [1.2 end table of contents] =========================================== --> - -<!-- [1.3 begin hint] ====================================================== --> - -<p>For other information, see the <a href="Readme.htm">Ghostscript -overview</a>.</p> - -<!-- [1.3 end hint] ======================================================== --> - -<hr> - -<!-- [1.0 end visible header] ============================================== --> - -<!-- [2.0 begin contents] ================================================== --> - -<h2><a name="About"></a>About Ghostscript fonts</h2> - -<p> -Ghostscript is distributed with two kinds of files related to fonts:</p> - -<ul> -<li>the fonts themselves in individual files, and</li> -<li>a file "<code>Fontmap</code>" that defines for -Ghostscript which file represents which font.</li> -</ul> - -<p> -Additionally, the file <code>cidfmap</code> can be used -to create substitutes for CIDFonts referenced by name in Postscript and PDF jobs. -See the section on <a href="Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution">CID Font Substitution</a> -for details. NOTE: care must be exercised since poor or incorrect output may result -from inappropriate CIDFont substitution. We therefore <strong>strongly</strong> recommend -embedding CIDFonts in your Postscript and PDF files if at all possible.</p> - -<p> -The "base 35" fonts required for Postscript (and "base 14" required for PDF) -are Postscript Type 1 font files.</p> -<p><a name="Fontmap"></a> -When Ghostscript needs a font, it must have some way to know where to look -for it: that's the purpose of the <code>Fontmap</code> file, which -associates the names of <em>fonts</em> such as <code>/Times-Roman</code> -with the names of font <em>files</em>, such as -<code>n021003l.pfb</code>. <code>Fontmap</code> can also create -aliases for font names, so that for instance, -<code>/NimbusNo9L-Regu</code> means the same font as -<code>/Times-Roman</code>.</p> -<p>Where a mapping in <code>Fontmap</code> maps a font name to a path/file, -the directory containing the font file is automatically added to the <code>permit -file read</code> list. For example: -<br> -<code>/Arial (/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf) ;</code> -<br> -will result in the path <code>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/</code> being -added to the <code>permit file read</code> list. This is done on the basis that font files -are often grouped in common directories, and rather than risk the file permissions lists -being swamped with (potentially) hundreds of individual files, it makes sense to add the -directories. -<p><b>NOTE:</b> Fontmap is processed (and the paths added to the file permissions list) during -initialisation of the Postscript interpreter, so any attempt by a Postscript job to change the -font map cannot influence the file permissions list. -<hr> - -<h2><a name="Free_fonts"></a>Ghostscript's free fonts</h2> -<ul> -<li>35 commercial-quality Type 1 basic PostScript fonts -- Times, -Helvetica, Courier, Symbol, etc. -- contributed by URW++ Design and -Development Incorporated, of Hamburg, Germany -(<a href="http://www.urwpp.de/">http://www.urwpp.de/</a>). Fontmap names -them all.</li> -</ul> -<hr> -<h2><a name="Get_fonts"></a>How Ghostscript gets fonts when it runs</h2> - -<p> -Fonts occupy about 50KB each, so Ghostscript doesn't load them all -automatically when it runs. Instead, as part of normal initialization -Ghostscript runs a file <code>gs_fonts.ps</code>, which arranges to load -fonts on demand using information from the font map. To preload all of the -known fonts, invoke the procedure</p> - -<blockquote><code> -loadallfonts -</code></blockquote> - -<p> -The file <code>lib/prfont.ps</code> contains code to print a sample page of -a font. Load this program by including it in the <code>gs</code> -command line or by invoking</p> - -<blockquote><code> -(prfont.ps) run -</code></blockquote> - -<p> -Then to produce a sampler of a particular font XYZ, invoke</p> - -<blockquote><code> -/XYZ DoFont -</code></blockquote> - -<p>For example,</p> - -<blockquote><code> -/Times-Roman DoFont -</code></blockquote> - -<p> -For more information about how Ghostscript loads fonts during execution, -see <a href="Use.htm#Font_lookup">here</a>.</p> - -<hr> - -<h2><a name="Add_fonts"></a>Adding your own fonts</h2> - -<p> -Ghostscript can use any Type 0, 1, 3, 4, or 42 font acceptable to -other PostScript language interpreters or to ATM, including MultiMaster -fonts. Ghostscript can also use TrueType font files.</p> - -<p> -To add fonts of your own, you must edit Fontmap to include at the end an -entry for your new font; the format for entries is documented -in Fontmap itself. Since later entries in Fontmap override earlier -entries, a font you add at the end supersedes any corresponding fonts supplied -with Ghostscript and defined earlier in the file. To ensure correct output, -it is vital that entries for the "base 35" fonts remain intact -in the Fontmap file.</p> - -<p> -In the PC world, Type 1 fonts are customarily given names ending in -<code>.PFA</code> or <code>.PFB</code>. Ghostscript can use these -directly: you just need to make the entry in Fontmap. If you want to use -with Ghostscript a commercial Type 1 font (such as fonts obtained in -conjunction with Adobe Type Manager), please read carefully the license that -accompanies the font to satisfy yourself that you may do so legally; we take -no responsibility for any possible violations of such licenses. The same -applies to TrueType fonts.</p> - -<h3><a name="Convert_BDF"></a>Converting BDF fonts (- deprecated!)</h3> - -<p> -Ghostscript provides a way to construct a (low-quality) Type 1 font from a -bitmap font in the BDF format popular in the Unix world. The shell script -<code>bdftops</code> (Unix) or the command file -<code>bdftops.bat</code> (DOS) converts a BDF file to a -scalable outline using <code>bdftops.ps</code> . Run the -shell command</p> - -<blockquote><code> -bdftops BDF_filename [AFM_file1_name ...] gsf_filename fontname<br> UniqueID [XUID] [encodingname] -</code></blockquote> - -<p> -The arguments have these meanings:</p> -<blockquote><table> -<tr valign="top"> <td><code>BDF_filename</code></td> - - <td>Input bitmap file in BDF format</td> - - <td> </td></tr> -<tr valign="top"> <td><code>AFM_file1_name</code></td> - - <td>AFM files giving metrics</td> - - <td>(Optional)</td></tr> -<tr valign="top"> <td><code>gsf_filename</code></td> - - <td>Output file</td> - - <td> </td></tr> -<tr valign="top"> <td><code>fontname</code></td> - - <td>Name of the font</td> - - <td> </td></tr> -<tr valign="top"> <td><code>UniqueID</code></td> - - <td>UniqueID (<a href="#Unique_IDs">as described below</a>)</td> - - <td> </td></tr> -<tr valign="top"> <td><code>XUID</code></td> - - <td>XUID, in the form <code>n1.n2.n3...</code> (<a href="#Unique_IDs">as described below</a>)</td> - - <td>(Optional)</td></tr> -<tr valign="top"> <td><code>encodingname</code></td> - - <td>"StandardEncoding" (the default), "ISOLatin1Encoding",<br>"SymbolEncoding", "DingbatsEncoding"</td> - - <td>(Optional)</td></tr> -</table></blockquote> - -<p> -For instance</p> - -<blockquote><code> -bdftops pzdr.bdf ZapfDingbats.afm pzdr.gsf ZapfDingbats 4100000 1000000.1.41 -</code></blockquote> - -<p> -Then make an entry in Fontmap for the <code>.gsf</code> -file (<code>pzdr.gsf</code> in the example) as -<a href="#Add_fonts">described above</a>.</p> - -<hr> - -<h2><a name="For_developers"></a>For developers only</h2> - -<p> -The rest of this document is very unlikely to be of value to ordinary -users.</p> - -<h3><a name="Font_contents"></a>Contents of fonts</h3> - -<p> -As noted above, Ghostscript accepts fonts in the same formats as PostScript -interpreters. Type 0, 1, and 3 fonts are documented in the PostScript -Language Reference Manual (Second Edition); detailed documentation for Type -1 fonts appears in a separate Adobe book. Type 2 (compressed format) fonts -are documented in separate Adobe publications. Type 4 fonts are not -documented anywhere; they are essentially Type 1 fonts with a BuildChar or -BuildGlyph procedure. Types 9, 10, and 11 (CIDFontType 0, 1, and 2) and -Type 32 (downloaded bitmap) fonts are documented in Adobe supplements. -Type 42 (encapsulated TrueType) fonts are documented in an Adobe -supplement; the TrueType format is documented in publications available -from Apple and Microsoft. Ghostscript does not support Type 14 (Chameleon) -fonts, which use a proprietary Adobe format.</p> - -<h3><a name="Unique_IDs"></a>Font names and unique IDs</h3> - -<p> -If you create your own fonts and will use them only within your own -organization, you should use <code>UniqueID</code> values between -4000000 and 4999999.</p> - -<p> -If you plan to distribute fonts, ask Adobe to assign you some UniqueIDs and -also an <code>XUID</code> for your organization. Contact</p> - -<blockquote><address> -Unique ID Coordinator<br> -Adobe Developers Association<br> -Adobe Systems, Inc.<br> -345 Park Avenue<br> -San Jose, CA 95110-2704<br> -+1-408-536-9000 telephone (ADA)<br> -+1-408-536-6883 fax<br> -<a href="mailto:fontdev-person@adobe.com">fontdev-person@adobe.com</a><br> -</address></blockquote> - -<p> -The XUID is a Level 2 PostScript feature that serves the same function as -the UniqueID, but is not limited to a single 24-bit integer. The -<code>bdftops</code> program creates XUIDs of the form -"<code>[-X- 0 -U-]</code>" where "<code>-X-</code>" is the -organization XUID and "<code>-U-</code>" is the UniqueID. (Aladdin -Enterprises' organization XUID, which appears in a few places in various -font-related files distributed with Ghostscript, is 107; do not use this for -your own fonts that you distribute.)</p> - -<hr> - -<h2><a name="Use_gs_fonts_with_X"></a>Using Ghostscript fonts on X Windows displays</h2> - -<p> The "Xfonts" feature is no longer supported.</p> - -<!-- [2.0 end contents] ==================================================== --> - -<!-- [3.0 begin visible trailer] =========================================== --> -<hr> - -<p> -<small>Copyright © 2000-2022 Artifex Software, Inc. 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