From: johnsonm@amcl2.math.stolaf.edu (Michael K Johnson) Subject: Re: Where is Ghostscript Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:09:39 GMT
In article <GTAYLOR.92Nov16000906@jade.tufts.edu> gtaylor@jade.tufts.edu (Grant Taylor) writes:
yes, ghostscript wants its own fonts... however, i don't believe
that they are actually necessary if you intend to be printing out
primarily tex output (ie, dvips->gs), as i think dvips soutputs only
graphics for it's postscript output. (i could be wrong, but how else
would the output fit the billing of device independant and look the
same as xdvi, which uses the tex fonts - in any case, gs won't use X
fonts)
Depends on which dvi -> ps converter you have, and how you have it set
up. It is possible to use postscript fonts in tex. For example, with
dvi3ps fully installed, I can use the postscript fonts by doing, in
latex,
\documentstyle[times]{report}
and the native ghostscript times font will be used. There are macros
for setting any true postscript fonts you like. If you don't use
this, yes, it does download pk bitmaps as a font -- it isn't all
graphics, but the fonts you use are downloaded as postscript bitmap
fonts. Once the fonts are downloaded, it just selects those fonts in
the same way that it would select any builtin postscript font, and
sends ascii characters the same way.
Hope this clears up any confusion. If this causes any confusion, it
is entirely the fault of the keyboard. Right.
michaelkjohnson