[gs-devel] ArabicTransparent and ArabicTransparent-Bold Fonts

[Ray Johnston]

Hi Levi,

Yes, ttfont support is built in by default.

Note that Ghostscript can search for fonts in a directory (such
as c:/windows/fonts) automatically by using the GS_FONTPATH
environment variable or the -sFONTPATH=___ command line option.

For example:

    gswin32 -sFONTPATH=c:/windows/fonts mypdf.pdf

Note that this will search your c:/windows/directory EVERY TIME
ghostscript runs and encounters a font that is not found in
Resource/Font (by an exact name match), or in a file on the
LIBPATH as listed in the Fontmap.

The 'toolbin/genfontmap.ps' can do the scan once and write out
a Fontmap file with all of the fonts that it finds so that if
this Fontmap is used for subsequent runs of gswin32 you won't
need to specify -sFONTPATH and spend the time scanning.

Another note is that the font name must match EXACTLY. For
example ArialXX is NOT the same as Arial. If you want to use
ArialXX when the document requests Arial then you can put this
(alias) line in your Fontmap:

    /Arial /ArialXX ;

The 'genfontmap.ps' program mentioned above can be used to see
what the actual font names are in your c:/windows/fonts by
running it and looking at the result, then add any aliases
that you desire.

I hope this helps. BTW, reading the documents might help
clarify things. There is information in available at:

http://www.artifex.com/gs870/Use.htm#Font_lookup

Regards,
Ray
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Levi wrote:
> Are the gs8xxw32.exe files compiled with the ttfont option normally?
> 
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Levi <skankwilsonite at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Ken Sharp <ken.sharp at artifex.com> wrote:
>>> At 12:16 14/10/2009 -0400, Levi wrote:
>>>
>>>> The PDF contains ArabicTransparent and ArabicTransparent-Bold fonts (the PDF also lists for both of those the corresponding xxx-Identity-H fonts, but I'm guessing that just means it's a CID?).
>>> If the PDF file contains the fonts, then you don't need to add them to GS, it will use the ones in the PDF file. Containing both is not really ideal, it (probably, would need to see the file to be sure) means that you have a regular TrueType font and a CIDFont with TrueType outlines, with the same name (maybe, they might be subset).
>>  I apologize, I forgot to mention that the fonts are NOT embedded in
>> the document.  They are copyrighted.  I have the fonts installed on my
>> system in C:\windows\fonts.
>>>
>>>
>>>>  I really don't have a clue what I'm doing, but what I'm trying to do (if this is the proper approach) is to get ghostscript to emulate the TrueType fonts that I have.
>>> I think you mean get GS to use the fonts you have, not emulate.
>> I was having trouble getting GS to use the fonts that I have.   I
>> added the following entry into my gs\gs8.63\lib\Fontmap.GS file (I
>> removed the entries I had made to cdifontmap before doing this):
>> /ArabicTransparent-Bold (artrbdo.ttf) ;
>> /ArabicTransparent (artro.ttf) ;
>> After doing so, I get the following error / stack:
>>
>> Processing pages 1 through 1.
>> Page 1
>> Substituting CID font resource/Adobe-Identity for /ArabicTransparent.
>> Error: /undefinedresource in findresource
>> Operand stack:
>>  --nostringval--   --dict:8/17(L)--   G1   1   --dict:5/5(L)--
>> --dict:5/5(L)--   ArabicTransparent-Identity-H   --dict:10/12(ro)(G)--
>>  --nostring
>> val--   CIDFontObject   --dict:7/7(L)--   --dict:7/7(L)--
>> Adobe-Identity   CIDFont   Adobe-Identity
>> Execution stack:
>>  %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
>> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
>> --nostringval--   --nostring
>> val--   false   1   %stopped_push   1905   1   3   %oparray_pop   1904
>>  1   3   %oparray_pop   1888   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--
>>  --nost
>> ringval--   2   1   1   --nostringval--   %for_pos_int_continue
>> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
>>  %array_conti
>> nue   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
>> %loop_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
>> --nostrin
>> gval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   %array_continue
>> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
>>  --nostringval--
>>  %loop_continue   --nostringval--   1856   14   10   %oparray_pop
>> findresource   %errorexec_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
>> --nostringva
>> l--
>> Dictionary stack:
>>  --dict:1165/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:1/20(G)--   --dict:75/200(L)--
>> --dict:75/200(L)--   --dict:106/127(ro)(G)--   --dict:275/300(ro)(G)--
>>  --dict
>> :21/25(L)--   --dict:4/6(L)--   --dict:22/40(L)--   --dict:10/13(L)--
>>  --dict:20/26(ro)(G)--
>> Current allocation mode is local
>> Last OS error: No such file or directory
>> GPL Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>>
>>> You probably need to add the fonts as Fonts, not CIDFonts, at a guess. This will mean editing fontmap.GS (not cidfmap) in your gs/Resource/Init directory.
>>>
>> I should also mention that in my gs folder I do not have a
>> /Resource/Init directory.  In fact, I did not even have a Resource
>> directory, but I created one by copying the Resource directory that
>> was in c:\program files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Resource to see if that would
>> help with the CID font.  Again, thanks for the quick response and it
>> sounds like using the straight TTF is what I need but I am obviously
>> doing it wrong.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Levi
>>
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