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   Message 137,565 of 138,051   
   Jeffrey H. Coffield to Paul R Schmidtbleicher   
   Re: Adding Fonts to Ghostscript   
   04 Aug 22 08:50:57   
   
   From: jeffrey@digitalsynergyinc.com   
      
   On 8/3/22 17:18, Paul R Schmidtbleicher wrote:   
   > In "/usr/share/ghostscript/9.54.0/Resource/Init/" are two Fontmap files.   
   > One is "Fontmap" 109B(ytes) I assume   
   > The other is "Fontmap.GS" which can be modified by utilities like "Kate"   
   >   
   > I modified "Fontmap.GS" for 4 "alias" fonts pointing to fonts in a   
   > directory included.   
   >   
   > % Aliases   
   >   
   > /Times-BoldItalic		(/usr/share/PSFONTS/TNRBI.PFB)	;   
   > /Times-Bold			(/usr/share/PSFONTS/TNRB.PFB)	;   
   > /Times-Italic			(/usr/share/PSFONTS/TNRI.PFB)	;   
   > /Times-Roman			(/usr/share/PSFONTS/TNR.PFB)	;   
   >   
   > However, it makes no difference when seeking to print a "PS" postscript   
   > file.  The nimbus font is chosen   
   >   
   > What step am I missing to get Ghostscript to recognize the changes to the   
   > "Fontmap.GS" file.   
      
   I assume you changed the existing definitions of Times and not added   
   these lines to the front of the file.   
      
   What is displayed if you enter   
      
   /Times-Roman findfont   
      
   into Ghostscript?   
      
   Jeff   
      
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