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Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2

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In article <ip4q7v$tli$2@online.de>, helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de 
says...

> > The trailing capital R 
> > looks like it ought to be assigned to a re-encoded font, but there 
> > doesn't seem to be any code to find the original font name and rename 
> > it.
> 
> It might be that it is not 100% correct PostScript.  It had always 
> worked, so I was in the "don't change a running system" category.

The PostScript is fine, its just looking for a font you don't seem to 
have.


> > version of Ghostscript has some crude font matching which appears to 
use 
> > Helvetica-BoldItalic and Times-Roman-Italic as substitutes, this does 
> > not produce any errors (nor any text output either, though the strokes 
> > are present).
> 
> On the sample I included?  I don't think there is any text in it; it was 
> just a quick plot to check if everything was working.

Well that would explain the lack of text ;-) I didn't look to see if the 
fonts were used, but the program does look for, scale and set as the 
current font several different fonts.


> > You could rename the fonts to use ones which are present on your 
system.
> 
> Is there an easy way to find this out?  As I said, it is unclear (at 
> least to me) which application looks where to find what fonts?

You can ask Ghostscript to tell you which fonts are installed (for 
Ghostscript) by writing a PostScript program. If you send this:

%!
(Known fonts : ) ==
(*) {==} 256 string /Font resourceforall

The GS will send the names of all the fonts it knows about to the back 
channel. Note that these are string, so will be enclosed in the string 
delimiters '(' and ')', they will not have the name delimiter '/'. To 
use say (Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique) in a PostScript program you would 
call for /Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique (Tell me if I'm being too basic 
here).

 
> > Installing the fonts for Ghostscript's use is another way to make this 
> > work. You haven't actually said which version of Ghostscrit you are 
> > using, and you do say its old, so probably I can't offer much advice on 
> > this.
> 
>   GS == "$DISK$SOFT:[GHOST.GS4_03]GS.EXE"
> 
> As I said, quite ancient.

Oh boy, that really is old! That was released in May 1998 so its very 
nearly 14 now.

I can understand your reluctance to upgrade, and in this case I don't 
believe there is actually a problem with Ghostscript, you just need to 
either install the required fonts, or use ones which are installed.

I can't really offer advice on installing fonts to a version of GS that 
old, as I suspect it has changed. You may find it easiest to change the 
name of the fonts you are looking for.

				Ken

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viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-25 19:47 +0000
  Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-04-25 15:37 -0500
    Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-25 21:44 +0000
  Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-25 21:49 +0100
    Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-25 21:48 +0000
      Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-26 08:29 +0100
        Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-26 07:58 +0000
          Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-26 10:35 +0100
            Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-26 11:23 +0000
              Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 m.kraemer@gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) - 2011-04-26 11:36 +0000
  Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-04-25 19:51 -0400
    Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-26 07:56 +0000
  Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 JOUKJ <joukj@hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> - 2011-04-26 08:42 +0200
    Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-26 08:33 +0100
      Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 JOUKJ <joukj@hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> - 2011-04-26 09:58 +0200

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