Adding Fonts Usable by Enscript
Joel Hammer
joel at hammershome.com
Tue Sep 11 20:36:36 PDT 2007
I still am unable to figure out fonts on my linux box. I
blame the documentation but, I am really lost. I mean,
there is X, there is enscript, there is gv, and gs,
and openoffice, blah blah. All seem to get their fonts
differently. How nice life would be if they all just
checked with the font server. There are two on my box,
one for ttf and for for truetype, I guess. xlsfont shows
all the fonts.
Has anybody had luck adding fonts to to the enscript
package, especially true type fonts?
I worked through this document:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/TT-Debian.html
but, it just didn't work for me. I got the xserver stuff
set up. I got some downloaded ttf files and converted
them with ttf2afm as suggested, and put the afm into my
enscript font directory. Enscript finds them and seems
to think it uses them, in that it puts the font names
into the postscript document, but, gv, doesn't seem to
use them. gs certainly can't find them, either.
Is there a way to embed the fonts into the document with
enscript so gv can have them? Or, is that the routine way
of doing it?
My areas of befuddlement include the obvious question:
Where does gv get it fonts from? From the X
server? If so, how are the names used by enscript
translated to the names the xserver uses for the
benefit of gv?
Any pointers appreciated.
Joel
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