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Re: DPS Fonts

#495
From: Robert Andrew Ryan
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:38
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\excerptedcaption{Excerpts from netnews.gnu.ghostscript.bug: 10-Nov-92 DPS 
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\quotation{I think I am allowed

}\quotation{to use them for this purpose, but when I tried this with the

}\quotation{Avant-Garde-Book font it did not work. On VMS the curves of

}\quotation{the lower case letters have horizontal discontinuities, and with

}\quotation{Ghostscript compiled on AIX, the font does not load, giving an 
error message.}


With ghostscript 2.5.2 compiled under AIX 3.1.5 I get the same behavior 
described above for VMS.  (Times, Helvetica, etc. seem to render alright.)


-Rob

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