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Re: where to put custom CMap file?

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In article <occoam$qpb$1@dont-email.me>, jszhao@yeah.net says...

> Thank you very much for the explanation. However, it's not easy to 
> rebuild Ghostscript on Windows.

I don't see why not. Get hold of a copy of Visual Studio from Microsoft; 
the community edition can be downlaoded for free, and Ghostscript 
qualifies for using it, as its open source.

Open the ghostpdl.sln file, and allow VS to update it. Then just compile 
the Ghostscript project. If you prefer command lines, then open the VS 
command shell from the start menu, navigate to the ghostpdl directory 
and "nmake -f psi/msvc.mak"


> Do you have any plan or option to 
> provide the Ghostscript that doesn't use the ROM file system?

No. As I said before, you need not even rebuild Ghostscript. You *will* 
need the source code, because that's where the resource files can be 
found.

Once you have thosse file locally, modify them as you see fit and then 
use the -I switch to tell Ghostscript to 'Include' those files. if you 
read the documentation here:

https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/Use.htm#Finding_files

then you will see that Ghostscript will search for resrouce files
in the Included (-I) directories before it searches the ROM file system.

If its too much work to specify the directory on the command line every 
time, then you can set the GS_LIB environment variable, which *still* 
gets searched before the ROM file system.

		Ken

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where to put custom CMap file? Jinsong Zhao <jszhao@yeah.net> - 2017-04-07 11:45 +0800
  Re: where to put custom CMap file? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2017-04-07 07:58 +0100
    Re: where to put custom CMap file? Jinsong Zhao <jszhao@yeah.net> - 2017-04-09 15:39 +0800
      Re: where to put custom CMap file? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2017-04-10 07:56 +0100
        Re: where to put custom CMap file? Jinsong Zhao <jszhao@yeah.net> - 2017-04-18 11:27 +0800
          Re: where to put custom CMap file? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2017-04-18 16:05 +0100
            Re: where to put custom CMap file? Jinsong Zhao <jszhao@yeah.net> - 2017-04-21 09:36 +0800

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