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   Message 137,567 of 138,051   
   Paul R Schmidtbleicher to Jeffrey H. Coffield   
   Re: Adding Fonts to Ghostscript   
   04 Aug 22 18:25:23   
   
   From: paulrs@foxinternet.net   
      
   On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 08:50:57 -0700, Jeffrey H. Coffield wrote:   
      
   > 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   
      
   This is what I get   
      
   GS>/Times-Roman findfont   
   Loading NimbusRoman-Regular font from /usr/share/ghostscript/9.54.0/   
   Resource/Font/NimbusRoman-Regular... 4481928 3126030 2005312 686036 1   
   done.   
      
   It still loads a wrong font.   
      
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