Ghostscript 4.01 and Wadalab Kanji fonts

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

This probably is not the correct place to ask this, but I'm not sure
where the correct place is.... I've tried all the places listed in the
ghostscript docs...


I have been trying to get the Wadalab fonts to work with Ghostscript
4.01. First I tried jis encoding by defining:

/Wadalab-mincho-0-8	(Wadalab-mincho-0-8.gsf) ;

Gs cores dumps if I try the following:

/Wadalab-mincho-0-8 findfont 40 scalefont setfont
100 100 moveto <3021> show showpage

Maybe GS runs out out memmory, as it load the whole font. I tried to
understand the stack trace below, but I didn't get very far.

#0  0x80866c3 in gs_reloc_struct_ptr ()
#1  0x80ca0c2 in font_reloc_ptrs ()
#2  0x804ead4 in font_type0_reloc_ptrs ()
#3  0x808665b in gc_do_reloc ()
#4  0x808586c in gc_top_level ()
#5  0x806fff3 in gs_vmreclaim ()
#6  0x806fe5f in ireclaim ()
#7  0x806ecbe in interp ()
#8  0x806d007 in gs_call_interp ()
#9  0x806cf55 in gs_interpret ()
#10 0x806a0b2 in gs_main_run_string_end ()
#11 0x8069fca in gs_main_run_string_with_length ()
#12 0x8069f75 in gs_main_run_string ()
#13 0x80694c4 in run_string ()
#14 0x80688ff in gs_main_run_start ()
#15 0x8049f2e in main ()
#16 0x8049ec4 in _start ()

If I use:

/Wadalab-mincho-0-8 (Wadalab-mincho-0-8.gsf.lazy) ;

The above test displays fine.

Now, what I realy want to do is display EUC encoded files, so I
defined:

/Wadalab-mincho-0-8-EUC		(Wadalab-mincho-0-8-EUC.gsf);

Which seem to work, but sometimes core dumps.

Any idea what I may be doing wrong? If you could send me a sample
Fontmap file and the encodings that you use, that would be most
helpful. 

What about other Kanji fonts? Can I buy commercial fonts and use them
with Ghostscript? Are there other public domain kanji fonts?

Thanks,


	Andy Howell
	TIBCO Tokyo.
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