Ghostscript references a font via its Fontmap
file. This must be modified in a similar way to the X11
fonts.dir file. Ghostscript can use either
the .pfa or the .pfb
format fonts. Using the font from the previous example, here is
how to use it with Ghostscript:
Put the font in Ghostscript's font directory%cd /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts%ln -s /usr/local/share/fonts/type1/showboat.pfb .Edit Fontmap so Ghostscript knows about the font%cd /usr/local/share/ghostscript/4.01%ex Fontmap :$a /Showboat (showboat.pfb) ; % From CICA /fonts/atm/showboat . :wqUse Ghostscript to examine the font%gs prfont.psAladdin Ghostscript 4.01 (1996-7-10) Copyright (C) 1996 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Loading Times-Roman font from /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/tir_____.pfb... /1899520 581354 1300084 13826 0 done. GS>Showboat DoFontLoading Showboat font from /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/showboat.pfb... 1939688 565415 1300084 16901 0 done. >>showpage, press <return> to continue<< >>showpage, press <return> to continue<< >>showpage, press <return> to continue<< GS>quit
References: fonts.txt in the
Ghostscript 4.01 distribution
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