🚀 go-pugleaf

This is really a gnu.ghostscript.bugs thing, but since Alan Honig writes:

   A major upgrade of the GhostScript package is now available.  I picked
   up a copy, version 2.4, via ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu in directory
   pub/gnu.  GhostScript allows one to preview postscript files on a
   variety of platforms, including MS-DOS.

   The MS-DOS executables include a module for 386 machines.  Version 2.4
   now allows loading any outline fonts, not just the single generic font
   available in earlier versions of this program.

There are a few bugs. Notably, gs24 does _not_ successfully read
Type1 .pfb font files (outline fonts). I posted a question on
gnu.ghostscript.bugs about this and was told that this is a known bug,
but the cause is unknown. So don't expect to use your ATM fonts with
gs yet. They are working on it, though.

I haven't yet tried it with DVIPS, but the release announcement said
that the problem of clipping the tops off rounded characters was fixed
in this version

I'm on an MS-DOS box, by the way. The font problems are present with the
normal and 386 versions of gs.

---Jon

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