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5. Making Fonts Available To GhostscriptTo make fonts available to ghostscript, it suffices to tell ghostscript
where the files corresponding to a given font are located. The
file that needs to be edited is
5.1 Type1Adding Type1 fonts is straightforward. Run 5.2 True TypeAdding truetype fonts is a little trickier, because we have to get the
name of the TrueType font. One way (brute force, alas) to do this is using
the
ttf2pt1 -A fontname - 2 > /dev/null |grep FontName
Then you add an entry to the ghostscript Fontmap file
in the correct format, eg
some-font (/usr/share/fonts/subdirectory/somefont.pbf);
Well, that works fine, but try doing it with 500 or so fonts.
This is the kind of thing that calls for a short perlscript:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# ttfontmap -- generate fontmap file for TrueType fonts
my $directory=shift || print STDERR "Usage: ttfontmap {directory}\n";
$directory=~s/\/$//;
for my $fontname ( glob ( "$directory/*.ttf" ) )
{
open ( R, "sh -c \"ttf2pt1 -A $fontname - 2>/dev/null\" |" );
while ( <R> )
{
if ( $_ =~ /^FontName/ )
{
s/^FontName\s*//;
chomp;
print "/" . $_ . " ($fontname);\n" ;
}
}
close R;
}
You can
download this script
To set this script up, all you need to do is cut and paste it into
a file called
ttfontmap directory > output_file
where directory is the directory containing the
fonts. You are left with the file output_file which you can append
to your ghostscript fontmap. Note: some will observe that you could
just use
ttfontmap directory >> /usr/share/ghostscript/version/Fontmap
However, I advise against this ( what would happen if you typed ``>'' instead of
``>>''
? )
5.3 Using Ghostscript To Preview FontsOnce you've made fonts available to ghostscript, you can preview them.
Do this by running the ghostscript interpreter on the file
/Fontname DoFont
at the ghostscript font ( where FontName is the ghostscript
name of the font you wish to preview ).
There are several other ways you can invoke gs. For example,
if you want to create a postscript file that you can look at in
a nicer postscript viewer such as gv, you can use
gs -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=somefile.ps prfont.ps
Having done this, you can also print your output file.
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