[Info-vax] Ghostscript update for VMS

[Chris Scheers]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article <iutd30$4kg$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de
> (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes: 
> 
>> I hadn't used it in a long time and was surprised to find that it had 
>> problems finding fonts, whereas it definitely worked in the past (with 
>> the same program generating the PostScript---a Fortran program unchanged 
>> since the mid-1990s).  I resorted to bitmapping the output (on another 
>> machine) and could then view the files locally (the original files 
>> printed fine on a PostScript printer (from HP, as it happens)).
>>
>> Considering the antiquity of my present version and the fact that it 
>> doesn't work anyway, it's probably better to start over from scratch.
>>
>> (I must admit that I have never understood what actually goes on under
>> the hood involving font selection etc, which fonts I have to install
>> where, if and if so how font substitution happens if a font is missing
>> etc.) 
> 
> Could this problem be related to the disappearance of Display PostScript 
> with 7.2 or whenever it was?

Yes.

By default, GS used the Display Postscript fonts.

There is a FONTMAP option that allows you to instruct GS to use 
different fonts.  Unfortunately, I don't remember how it works just now.

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