Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!parcplace!aladdin!ghost
From: ghost@aladdin.com (L. Peter Deutsch)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Producing Ghostscript (.gsf) fonts
Message-ID: <26.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com>
Date: 14 Nov 90 05:26:53 GMT
Organization: Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA
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A recent posting inquired about utilities for converting another font
format to the .gsf format used by Ghostscript.

The Ghostscript .gsf fonts are simply Adobe Type 1 fonts, with a couple of
conventions that don't affect rendering (e.g., no eexec encryption,
although Ghostscript does handle eexec properly).  Users have successfully
used Adobe-originated Type 1 fonts with Ghostscript.  Ghostscript also, of
course, accepts Type 3 fonts, where the rendering of each character is
defined entirely by a P*stScr*pt program; in fact, the version of the
Hershey fonts distributed with Ghostscript works this way.

We recognize that the fonts distributed with Ghostscript version 2.0 are
not of particularly high quality; inaccuracies in the Ghostscript renderer
make them look even less pleasing.  Karl Berry and Kathy Hargreaves are
working hard on creating better fonts for Ghostscript in the future.

Future versions of Ghostscript will also accept other Adobe font
types, such as type 0 (composite) fonts.  I understand that type 4
and 5 fonts exist, and I would like to support them, but I don't know
where to find the documentation: could someone help me out?

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
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