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[mgp-users 01120] Re: mgp and ghostscript-fonts in Debian Woody
- To: tobias.hilbricht@t-online.de
- Subject: [mgp-users 01120] Re: mgp and ghostscript-fonts in Debian Woody
- From: Yoshifumi Nishida <nishida@csl.sony.co.jp>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:54:31 -0800 (PST)
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From: Tobias.Hilbricht@t-online.de (Tobias Hilbricht)
Subject: [mgp-users 01118] mgp and ghostscript-fonts in Debian Woody
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:29:38 +0100
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> -- I have installed some TrueType-fonts by means of the appropriate
> defoma-tools, and they work as expected. However, despite being able to
> render the ghostscript fonts (times = Nimbus*, courier = NimbusMono*,
> helvetica = NimbusSans*, palatino etc.) with X11 and with the printer, I can
> not use them with MagicPoint. Therefore I would like to know what I have to
> do to acquaint MagicPoint with the ghostscript-fonts.
mgp-1.09 or former versions do not support type1 or CID fonts.
If you want to use these fonts, please try the current mgp code from anon CVS.
If you have xft2 + fontconfig environment, I think it will work.
> -- Other Linux-installations (different distributions) do not use defoma, and
> fonts tend to be at various places. How can I get the same fonts on different
> Linux-Installations, which might be configured in a different way than my
> system - can I embed fonts, or do I have to put everything in one folder and
> use relative paths?
Hmm.. How about installing the same fonts on the same directory and setting
your .mgprc file to refer these fonts?
--
Yoshifumi Nishida
nishida@csl.sony.co.jp