Re: tlug: Ghostscript/VFlib not finding font

[Matt Gushee <matt@example.com>]

Frank Bennett writes:
 > On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 06:54:14PM +0900, Andrew S. Howell wrote:
 > 
 > > Your postscript should have some setfont postscript operators that are
 > > trying to select some Japanese font. Your mission, should you decide
 > > to accept it, is to dive head first into the postscript and figure out
 > > what fonts its looking for.
 > 
 > This info is contained in kconfig.ps, in the VFlib or kanji subdirectory
 > of your ghostscript data directory, whereever that happens to be located.
 > 
 > The entry looks like this:
 > 
 > /Ryumin-Light           4300000 (min)   VFlibkanji
 > /GothicBBB-Medium       4300200 (goth)  VFlibkanji
 > 
 > "min" and "goth" are the alias names it will look for.  So you just leave
 > this alone, and edit the entries in vfontcap.  The problem is that
 > your system might be looking for vfontcap in lots of different locations.

No, finding vfontcap isn't the problem. But the values of 'min' and
'goth' are. Anyway, it's good to know about 'kconfig.ps'. I knew it
was there, but hadn't seriously looked at it and didn't know if it was
the right file to edit.

 > But pointing VFlib at the Wadalab fonts worked, according to Matt?

I'm afraid that was a misleading statement on my part. What actually
happened was that VFlib stopped complaining about the 'min' font *when 
it wasn't needed* -- e.g., for English documents. Pointing it at the
Wadalab fonts does *not* work, I found ... at least, not the way I did
it. I later got previewing to work with a TrueType Mincho & Gothic --
but I haven't managed to print with those yet.

Stephen J. Turnbull writes:

 > I beleive that VFlib is supposed to handle _all_ fonts in a unified
 > way.

Yes, I think version 3 handles all fonts. Version 2 handles only a
limited set of Japanese fonts ... and as I review the docs again, it
appears that doesn't include Type 1 fonts (and yes, I tried to build
Ghostscript against version 3, but the interface seems to be
completely incompatible). So maybe what I need to do is to prevent GS
from calling VFlib when Wadalab Type 1 fonts are called for ... would
kconfig.ps be the place to do that? Or maybe substitute the TrueType
versions?

Cheers,
Matt Gushee
Oshamanbe, Hokkaido
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