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Marcel Wijkstra writes:
      I have several .afm font files, which are used for 'enscript' (creating
      a PostScript file with a specified font/size from plain ascii). Unfortunately,
      not every afm font is supported by GhostScript (2.3, with GhostView 1.3).
      Is there a way to convert/add them to GhostScript? If possible, can I
      locate them in a different directory than the gs font dir?

Sorry, but .afm is for Adobe Font Metrics, and .afm files (very much
like .tfm files in the TeX world) only contain the widths etc. of the
characters, not the outlines. The real fonts data are in files called
.pfb (binary) and .pfa (ASCII) , and are usually not free.

Starting with Version 2.4, Ghostscript should be in fact able to use
them. All you have to do is put the files in your font directory (or
point the GS_LIB variable to where they are) and edit your Fontmap file.
I tried it with the fonts coming with MS-Windows 3.1 an the Adobe Type
Manager. It works really fine.
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