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Re: where to put custom CMap file?

From Jinsong Zhao <jszhao@yeah.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: where to put custom CMap file?
Date 2017-04-09 15:39 +0800
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <occoam$qpb$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <oc71ri$3mq$1@dont-email.me> <MPG.335149042339849c989915@usenet.plus.net>

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On 2017/4/7 14:58, ken wrote:
> In article <oc71ri$3mq$1@dont-email.me>, jszhao@yeah.net says...
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am using ghostscript on Windows system. The ghostscript 9.21 for
>> Windows don't have Resource directory. So, my question is, where I can
>> place custom CMap file and corresponding CIDfont. In my case, I hope to
>> use SourceHanSerifSC-Regular.otf and the correspoinding CMap file
>> UniSourceHanSerifCN-UTF8-H.
>
> The Windows version of Ghostscript uses a ROM file system by default.
> You need to get a copy of the source code, add the files to the relevant
> sub-directories of ghostpdl/Resource and then either :
>
> 1) rebuild Ghostscript so that the ROM file system contains the new
> files. You could also rebuild Ghostscript so that it doesn't use the ROM
> file system and then use option 2 below, but there's no great advantage
> to that.
>
> Or
>
> 2) Use the existing binary but tell Ghostscript to include an external
> path in its search for resources, using the -I switch to add your
> modified directory tree to the search.
>
>
>
> 		Ken
>
Thank you very much for the explanation. However, it's not easy to 
rebuild Ghostscript on Windows. Do you have any plan or option to 
provide the Ghostscript that doesn't use the ROM file system?

Thanks again.

Best,
Jinsong

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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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