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  Revised and expanded PS font name finder don lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2016-10-21 11:57 -0700

#2916 — Revised and expanded PS font name finder

Just revised, expanded, and improved our PostScript font name
finder.

To use, simply send a copy of
http://www.tinaja.com/psutils/psfontnamesnooper1.psl to
Acrobat's Distiller. And it will attempt to find the exact
PostScript font names and appearances of many ( and
possibly most ) of the fonts you currently have available.

A sample of somebody elses' results can be found at
http://www.tinaja.com/psutils/psfontnamesnooper1.pdf

The master font name search directory can be found at
http://www.tinaja.com/psFontnames.psl At present, there
are nearly 4000 entries in this candidate directory.

Your help in expanding the directory is urgently needed.

The algorithm works by simply trying to use every
known directory based PostScript font name and
seeing which do or do not get substituted. Amazingly,
the processing time is just over ten seconds.

Sorry, but this code is presently intended for Acrobat
Distiller only. GhostScript substitutes its fonts in
a different and presently incompatible manner. Your
help in solving GhostScript compatibility is needed.


-- 
Many thanks,

Don Lancaster                          voice phone: (928)428-4073
Synergetics   3860 West First Street   Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552
rss: http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu.xml   email: don@tinaja.com

Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com

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