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   Message 137,568 of 138,051   
   Jeffrey H. Coffield to Paul R Schmidtbleicher   
   Re: Adding Fonts to Ghostscript   
   04 Aug 22 12:35:27   
   
   From: jeffrey@digitalsynergyinc.com   
      
   On 8/4/22 11:25, Paul R Schmidtbleicher wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Just to confirm...   
      
   There isn't any definition of /Times-Roman in the Fontmap.GS AFTER the   
   lines you changed/added?   
      
   Jeff   
      
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