[Info-vax] Ghostscript update for VMS

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4E136A42.6090000 at applied-synergy.com>, Chris Scheers
<chris at applied-synergy.com> writes: 

> >> (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.

In that case, do I need to get them from somewhere, or does GS have its 
own fonts?  It's really a pain when package A requires package B, which 
in turn requires package C etc.