This is not exactly axp issue, but... Consider this a Xmas gift. :-)
Using new fonts in GhostScript is rather trivial matter. Just drop
them (or links to them, safer) into its path and edit Fontmap
file. Later entries clobber earlier ones, so you do not even have
to bother to remove something which points Times-Roman to
URW Nimbus Roman, for example; the later one is what counts.
'gs -h' will show you path used by ghostscript, among other things.
An alternate method is to give absolute locations of your extra
fonts in Fontmap, but if you will move something then you have to
remember to update this file.
Here is an account how I made ghostcript fonts (Type1) avaialable
to X server. This can be used, with small modifications, with
any Type1 fonts, from whatever a source, which you have on hand.
First I created a directory /usr/local/lib/type1_fonts, to keep everything
out of rpm harm way, and filled it with links to .pf{ab} and .afm files
which I wanted. So I ended up there with a stuff like:
a010013l.afm
a010013l.pfb
a010015l.afm
a010015l.pfb
....
and so on.
Next I used the following Perl program to create a skeleton
fonts.scale file. It is far from beeing perfect. Installing new
fonts is not done often enough to get very deeply into parsing pfa
and pfb files, but editing results surely beats creating everything
by hand from scratch. Here it is for yours further improvements
and use:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Helper program to prepare entries for fonts.scale file for Type1 fonts
# Expects .pfa or .pfb file names as its input
#
# Michal Jaegermann, 1996-12-1
#
$outfile = "fonts_scale.tmp";
$fndry = "urw"; # for now, change to whatever you fancy
$fmly = "";
$wght = ""; # black, bold, demibold, medium, regular
$slant= ""; # i, o, r
$sWdth= "normal"; # normal, semicondensed
$fill = "-0-0-0-0";
$spc = ""; # c, m, p - 'c' is constant, 'm' is monospaced, really
# the same thing; 'p' is proportional
$tail = "0-iso8859-1";
$count = 0;
open (OUT, ">$outfile") or die "cannot write to $outfile: $!\n";
while ($infile = shift) {
open (IN, $infile) or die "cannot read $infile: $!\n";
while (<IN>) {
chomp;
if (/FamilyName/) {
($fmly = lc $_) =~ s/.*\((.*)\).*/$1/;
}
if (/Weight/) {
($wght = lc $_) =~ s/.*\((.*)\).*/$1/;
}
if (/ItalicAngle/) {
$_ = (split ' ', $_)[1];
$slant = (0 == $_ ? 'r' : 'i');
}
if (/isFixedPitch/) {
$_ = (split ' ', $_)[1];
$spc = ('true' eq $_ ? 'm' : 'p');
}
last if /currentdict end/;
}
close IN;
$count += 1;
print OUT "$infile -$fndry-$fmly-$wght-$slant-$sWdth-$fill-$spc-$tail\n";
}
print OUT "$count\n";
exit 0;
__END__
I fed to it all my '*.pf?' files as arguments and after editing results
with an editor I got this 'fonts.scale':
35
a010013l.pfb -urw-gothic-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
a010015l.pfb -urw-gothic-demibold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
a010033l.pfb -urw-gothic-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
a010035l.pfb -urw-gothic-demibold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
b018012l.pfb -urw-bookman-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
b018015l.pfb -urw-bookman-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
b018032l.pfb -urw-bookman-regular-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
b018035l.pfb -urw-bookman-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
c059013l.pfb -urw-century schoolbook-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
c059016l.pfb -urw-century schoolbook-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
c059033l.pfb -urw-century schoolbook-regular-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
c059036l.pfb -urw-century schoolbook-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
d050000l.pfb -urw-dingbats-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
n019003l.pfb -urw-nimbus sans-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
n019004l.pfb -urw-nimbus sans-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
n019023l.pfb -urw-nimbus sans-regular-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
n019024l.pfb -urw-nimbus sans-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
n019043l.pfb -urw-nimbus sans-regular-r-semicondensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
n019044l.pfb -urw-nimbus sans-bold-r-semicondensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
n019063l.pfb -urw-nimbus sans-regular-i-semicondensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
n019064l.pfb -urw-nimbus sans-bold-i-semicondensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
n021003l.pfb -urw-nimbus roman-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
n021004l.pfb -urw-nimbus roman-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
n021023l.pfb -urw-nimbus roman-regular-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
n021024l.pfb -urw-nimbus roman-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
n022003l.pfb -urw-nimbus mono-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
n022004l.pfb -urw-nimbus mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
n022023l.pfb -urw-nimbus mono-regular-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
n022024l.pfb -urw-nimbus mono-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
p052003l.pfb -urw-palladio-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
p052004l.pfb -urw-palladio-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
p052023l.pfb -urw-palladio-regular-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
p052024l.pfb -urw-palladio-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
s050000l.pfb -urw-symbol-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
z003034l.pfb -urw-chancery-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
Subseqently I run mkfontdir (the manual says that for scaled fonts this
is really equivalent to 'cp fonts.scale fonts.dir', but just in case :-),
added /usr/local/lib/type1_font to FontPath in my XF86Config file
and restarted X server. That is about it. Start your 'xfontsel' and
preview what you got.
Have fun with your fonts,
Michal
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