Re: help on building ghostscript fonts

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From: Malte Uhl
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1991 13:10

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In article <9112190833.0.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com>, ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch) writes:
|> 
|> Ghostscript will use any Type 1 font.  Just put it in the Fontmap.
|> Read the documentation.
|> 
|> There are three separate problems in Ghostscript 2.3: it does not
|> look at the hints in the Type 1 fonts; the fonts that are supplied
|> with Ghostscript are poor quality; the fonts supplied with
|> Ghostscript have different metrics from the corresponding Adobe
|> fonts.  (2.3 doesn't even look at the Metrics dictionary.)

Isn't there a miracle to transform *.afm to *.gsf ??

Malte.

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