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Re: Showing my (or your) fonts

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On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:23:40 +0100, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

> Op zondag 25 nov 2012 16:48 CET schreef Chris:
> 
> 
> It takes quit a long time to generate. But I'll look into it. Thanks. At
> least I can try to understand what is happening there.

The time taken to run is mainly due, on my system, to the number of 
CIDFont/CMap combinations that resourceforall has to enumerate.

> What I like about my version is that it is sorted and I can exclude
> ‘doubles’. Some fonts (on my system) are about 15 times included in
> different names. After excluding the doubles I was left with about half
> of what I had gotten first. And I could make different sets, by making
> the script use an input of the needed fonts.

OTOH, you have to repeat that entire process every time you want to check 
the fonts on a new system. Also, I'm assuming you used the output from fc-
list, and there's no guarantee that a Postscript interpreter actually 
uses fontconfig to find fonts - even on Ghostscript, that's an optional 
feature.

My version is portable across systems, and Postscript implementations, 
and guarantees all the fonts it enumerates are actually available for use 
by the Postscript interpreter in question.

Chris

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Showing my (or your) fonts Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-11-25 13:42 +0100
  Re: Showing my (or your) fonts Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-25 15:48 +0000
    Re: Showing my (or your) fonts Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-11-25 20:23 +0100
      Re: Showing my (or your) fonts Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-25 19:58 +0000
        Re: Showing my (or your) fonts Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-11-25 23:20 +0100

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