Re: ghostscript Font Substitution

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From	Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org>
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Subject	Re: ghostscript Font Substitution
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Date	Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:12:01 +0200
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Hans-Juergen Frevel wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a PDF-File which don't show the german umlauts with gsview. I
> have the following message:
> 
> GSview 5.0 2012-01-17
> GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08)
> Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Scanning PDF file
> %GSVIEW_PDF_PAGES: 1 1
> Displaying PDF page 1
> %GSVIEW_PDF_PAGE: 1
> %GSVIEW_PDF_MEDIA: [0 0 595.273 841.886]
> %GSVIEW_PDF_ROTATE: 0
> Can't find CID font "CourierNew".
> Attempting to substitute CID font /Adobe-Identity for /CourierNew, see
> doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
> The substitute CID font "Adobe-Identity" is not provided either.
> attempting to use fallback CIDFont.See doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
> Loading a TT font from %rom%Resource/CIDFSubst/DroidSansFallback.ttf to
> emulate a CID font Adobe-Identity ... Done.
> Can't find CID font "CourierNew".
> Attempting to substitute CID font /Adobe-Identity for /CourierNew, see
> doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
> Can't find CID font "Tahoma".
> Attempting to substitute CID font /Adobe-Identity for /Tahoma, see
> doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
> 
> I haven't understand how to substitute the missing fonts.
> 
> Thank you for any help
> 
> greetings
> Hans-Jürgen

You didn't tell anything about the system you are running on (presumably 
Windows?), but if set up corrrectly, Ghostscript should fall back to the 
DroidSansFallback font, which *does* contain the umlauts.

But - again assuming you are on a Windows system - CourierNew and Tahoma 
belong, as far as I know, to the standard fonts supplied with every Windows 
installation, so you should set up a cidfmap file as described in the 
Use.htm document and force GSview to use that by providing the -I command 
line switch (as your Ghostscript has the default resources compiled in).

Helge

PS: Issues like this ever since lead me to not compile in the resources 
whenever I compile Ghostscript from the sources (I'm using variuos Unices).

Thread

ghostscript Font Substitution Hans-Juergen Frevel <hjfrevel@1med.uni-kiel.de> - 2012-06-06 09:48 +0200
  Re: ghostscript Font Substitution Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-06-06 11:12 +0200
    Re: ghostscript Font Substitution Hans-Juergen Frevel <hjfrevel@1med.uni-kiel.de> - 2012-06-06 14:13 +0200
      Re: ghostscript Font Substitution ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-06-06 20:37 +0100

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