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<h1>Fonts and font facilities supplied with Ghostscript</h1>
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<h2>Table of contents</h2>
<blockquote><ul>
<li><a href="#About">About Ghostscript fonts</a>
<li><a href="#Free_fonts">Ghostscript's free fonts</a>
<li><a href="#Other_fonts">Other free fonts</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Computer_Modern">Computer Modern Fontmap</a>
<li><a href="#Chinese">Free Chinese (Hanzi) fonts</a>
<li><a href="#Japanese">Free Japanese (Kanji) fonts</a>
<li><a href="#Unicode_CMaps">Unicode CMaps</a>
<li><a href="#Cyrillic">Free Cyrillic fonts</a>
<li><a href="#Partial_Unicode_fonts">(Partial) Unicode fonts</a>
</ul>
<li><a href="#Get_fonts">How Ghostscript gets fonts when it runs</a>
<li><a href="#Platform_fonts">Platform fonts</a>
<li><a href="#Add_fonts">Adding your own fonts</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Convert_BDF">Converting BDF fonts</a>
</ul>
<li><a href="#For_developers">For developers only</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Font_contents">Contents of fonts</a>
<li><a href="#Precompiling">Precompiling fonts</a>
<li><a href="#Short_identifiers">Precompiling fonts on platforms with identifier length limits</a>
<li><a href="#Unique_IDs">Font names and unique IDs</a>
<li><a href="#Codes">Codes used to make font file names</a>
</ul>
<li><a href="#Use_gs_fonts_with_X">Using Ghostscript fonts on X Windows displays</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Using_xset">Using <b><tt>xset</tt></b></a>
<li><a href="#Font_permanent_installation">Permanent installation</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Configure_xfs">Configuring the <b><tt>xfs</tt></b> font server</a>
<li><a href="#Configure_Xfree86">Xfree86 display servers</a>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul></blockquote>
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<p>For other information, see the <a href="Readme.htm">Ghostscript
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<h2><a name="About"></a>About Ghostscript fonts</h2>
<p>
Ghostscript is distributed with two kinds of files related to fonts:
<ul>
<li>the fonts themselves in individual files, and
<li>a file "<tt><b>Fontmap</b></tt>" that defines for
Ghostscript which file represents which font.
</ul>
<p>
Additionally, a file <tt><b>cidfmap</b></tt> can be used
to create CID fonts for CJK font files on the system See
the section on <a href="Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution">CID Font Substitution</a>
for details.
<p>
Most of the font files supplied with Ghostscript have the extension
<tt><b>.pfb</b></tt>, and a few have <tt><b>.pfa</b></tt> or
<tt><b>.gsf</b></tt>. Each file defines one ordinary PostScript Type 1
outline font which any PostScript language interpreter can use. Files with
<tt><b>.pfa</b></tt> or <tt><b>.pfb</b></tt> extensions are also compatible
with Adobe Type Manager (ATM) and with tools that don't include a full
PostScript language interpreter; files with <tt><b>.gsf</b></tt> extension
are incompatible with ATM and other tools. Ghostscript compiled with the
"ttfont" option can also use TrueType fonts with the extension
<tt><b>.ttf</b></tt>.
<p><a name="Fontmap"></a>
When Ghostscript needs a font, it must have some way to know where to look
for it: that's the purpose of the <b><tt>Fontmap</tt></b> file, which
associates the names of <em>fonts</em> such as <b><tt>/Times-Roman</tt></b>
with the names of font <em>files</em>, such as
<tt><b>n021003l.pfb</b></tt>. <b><tt>Fontmap</tt></b> can also create
aliases for font names, so that for instance,
<b><tt>/NimbusNo9L-Regu</tt></b> means the same font as
<b><tt>/Times-Roman</tt></b>.
<hr>
<h2><a name="Free_fonts"></a>Ghostscript's free fonts</h2>
<p>
Two sets of free fonts are supplied for Ghostscript:
<ul>
<li>35 commercial-quality Type 1 basic PostScript fonts -- Times,
Helvetica, Courier, Symbol, etc. -- contributed by URW++ Design and
Development Incorporated, of Hamburg, Germany
(<a href="http://www.urwpp.de/">http://www.urwpp.de/</a>). Fontmap names
them all.
<li>A miscellaneous set including Cyrillic, kana, and fonts derived from
the free Hershey fonts, with improvements (such as adding accented
characters) by Thomas Wolff. The Hershey-based fonts are quite different
from traditional printer or display fonts; you can read about them in more
detail in the <a href="Hershey.htm">documentation on Hershey fonts</a>.
</ul>
<blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><th colspan=7 bgcolor="#CCCC00"><hr><font size="+1">Font packages</font><hr>
<tr> <td><b>System</b>
<td>
<td><b>File name</b>
<td>
<td><b>Contents</b>
<td>
<td><b>Types</b>
<tr> <td colspan=7><hr>
<tr valign=top> <td>DOS and<br>MS Windows
<td>
<td><b><tt>gs###fn1.zip</tt></b>
<td>
<td>Basic
<td>
<td><b><tt>.pfb</tt></b>
<tr valign=top> <td>
<td>
<td><b><tt>gs###fn2.zip</tt></b>
<td>
<td>Miscellaneous
<td>
<td>Various, for<br>different fonts
<tr> <td colspan=7><hr>
<tr valign=top> <td>Unix
<td>
<td><b><tt>ghostscript-fonts-std-#.##.tar.gz</tt></b>
<td>
<td>Basic
<td>
<td><b><tt>.afm</tt></b>,
<b><tt>.pfb</tt></b>,<br><b><tt>.pfm</tt></b> <tr valign=top> <td>
<td>
<td><b><tt>ghostscript-fonts-other-#.##.tar.gz</tt></b>
<td>
<td>Miscellaneous
<td>
<td><b><tt>.afm</tt></b>,
<b><tt>.gsf</tt></b>,<br><b><tt>.pfa</tt></b>, <b><tt>.pfm</tt></b>
</table>
</blockquote>
<p>
"#.##" and "###" are the version number with and without punctuation.
Fonts can be found at
<blockquote>
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs###/ (for a particular version)<br>
<a href="ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/fonts/"
class="offsite">ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/fonts/</a> (for
several versions)
</blockquote>
<hr>
<h2><a name="Other_fonts"></a>Other free fonts</h2>
<h3><a name="Computer_Modern"></a>Computer Modern Fontmap</h3>
<p>
Don Knuth's Computer Modern fonts are popular, free, and widely available.
A Fontmap appropriate for these fonts is available from:
<blockquote>
<a
href="ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/contrib/Fontmap.cmr"
class="offsite">
ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/contrib/Fontmap.cmr</a>
</blockquote>
<p>
or from other <a href="http://www.ctan.org/" class="offsite">CTAN</a> sites.
<h3><a name="Chinese"></a>Free Chinese (Hanzi) fonts</h3>
<p>
A free Chinese font, originally provided by courtesy of Jackson Technology,
Ltd., Taiwan under the GPL and now distributed by the Taiwan NeXT User
Group, is available from:
<blockquote>
<a href="ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/3rdparty/fonts/hanzi/"
class="offsite">ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/3rdparty/fonts/hanzi/</a>
</blockquote>
<p>
Prof. Wu of the Department of Economics of National Taiwan University has
created several free Type 1 Chinese fonts designed to be used with TeX. His
e-mail is <a
href="mailto:ntut019@ccms.ntu.edu.tw">ntut019@ccms.ntu.edu.tw</a>. The
fonts are available from
<blockquote>
<a href="ftp://cle.linux.org.tw/pub/fonts/cwfont/"
class="offsite">ftp://cle.linux.org.tw/pub/fonts/cwfont/</a><br>
</blockquote>
<p>
Arphic Technology Co., Ltd., has made several free TrueType Chinese fonts
available under the Arphic Public License, a license very similar to the
GPL. (Ghostscript can use TrueType fonts if Ghostscript is compiled with
the <tt><b>ttfont</b></tt> feature included: see <a
href="Make.htm#Features_and_devices">here</a> for more information.) The
fonts and license are available from
<blockquote>
<a href="ftp://cle.linux.org.tw/pub/fonts/arphic/"
class="offsite">ftp://cle.linux.org.tw/pub/fonts/arphic/</a><br>
</blockquote>
<h3><a name="Japanese"></a>Free Japanese (Kanji) fonts</h3>
<p>
Mr. Tetsurou Tanaka of the Department of Engineering, University of Tokyo,
has created a set of free Kanji fonts available from
<blockquote>
<a href="ftp://ftp.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Font/"
class="offsite">ftp://ftp.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Font/</a><br>
</blockquote>
<p>
along with documentation in Japanese and English describing their
conditions of use and how to use them. An older copy of these fonts, under
somewhat different names, is available at the Ghostscript site:
<blockquote>
<a href="ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/3rdparty/fonts/kanji/">
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/3rdparty/fonts/kanji/</a><br>
</blockquote>
<p>
Mr. Norio Katayama has done some work to make Ghostscript work well with
Kanji fonts. An easy-to-install Kanji font for Ghostscript, with
installation instructions, is at
<blockquote>
<a href="http://www.cit.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/~far/howto/gs-ttf.html"
class="offsite">http://www.cit.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/~far/howto/gs-ttf.html</a>
</blockquote>
<p>
The same site has patches to make Ghostscript work with Japanese VF fonts,
with documentation in both English and Japanese:
<blockquote>
<a href="http://www.cit.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/~far/howto/gs-vflib.html"
class="offsite">http://www.cit.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/~far/howto/gs-vflib.html</a>
</blockquote>
<p>
Here are some other resources in Japanese relating to VFlib and using
Ghostscript with Japanese fonts:
<blockquote><dl compact>
<dt><a href="http://kakugawa.aial.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~kakugawa/Hacks/"
class="offsite">http://kakugawa.aial.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~kakugawa/Hacks/</a>
<dt><a href="http://itohws03.ee.noda.sut.ac.jp/~matsuda/VFlib-FT/"
class="offsite">http://itohws03.ee.noda.sut.ac.jp/~matsuda/VFlib-FT/</a>
<dd>Author <<a href="mailto:matsuda@itohws01.ee.noda.sut.ac.jp">matsuda@itohws01.ee.noda.sut.ac.jp</a>>
<dt><a href="http://www.rd.nacsis.ac.jp/~katayama/homepage/ghostscript/Japanese.html"
class="offsite">http://www.rd.nacsis.ac.jp/~katayama/homepage/ghostscript/Japanese.html</a>
<dd>Author <<a href="mailto:katayama@rd.nacsis.ac.jp">katayama@rd.nacsis.ac.jp</a>>
</dl></blockquote>
<h3><a name="Unicode_CMaps"></a>Unicode CMaps</h3>
<p>
Some Unicode CMaps that can be used with Ghostscript are freely downloadable from
<blockquote>
<a href="ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/examples/nutshell/ujip/adobe/"
class="offsite">ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/examples/nutshell/ujip/adobe/</a>
</blockquote>
<h3><a name="Cyrillic"></a>Free Cyrillic fonts</h3>
<p>
N. Glonty and A. Samarin created in 1989 a Cyrillic extension of TeX's
"Computer Modern" fonts, now freely available through the
<a href="http://www.ctan.org/" class="offsite">Comprehensive TeX Archive Network</a> (CTAN),
for instance at
<blockquote>
<a href="ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/cyrillic/cmcyr/"
class="offsite">ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/cyrillic/cmcyr/</a>
</blockquote>
<p>
<a href="http://www.ctan.org/" class="offsite">CTAN's</a> entire collection of Cyrillic fonts
is, for instance, at
<blockquote>
<a href="ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/cyrillic/"
class="offsite">ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/cyrillic/</a>
</blockquote>
<p>
Basil K. Malyshev created the "Paradissa Fonts Collection" in 1993. It
contained 165 fonts, including the Glonty and Samarin font above plus other
Computer Modern, Euler, and LaTeX fonts, all in PostScript Type 1 format
with <code>.afm</code> and <code>.pfm</code> files, compatible with ATM.
The collection could once be found through CTAN, for instance at
<blockquote>
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/
<!-- orginal was ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/postscript/cm/ -->
</blockquote>
<p>
but the collection no longer seems to be available. However, the
<a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/" class="offsite">ctan fonts directory</a>
remains an excellent source of free fonts, many of which are offered in
postscript as well we as TeX Metafont format.
<hr>
<h3><a name="Partial_Unicode_fonts"></a>(Partial) Unicode fonts</h3>
<p>
George W. Wilson is distributing some free partial Unicode fonts he created.
These fonts currently lack Arabic and CJK characters, but they include a
very large subset of the remaining Unicode set. They are available in both
Type 1 and TrueType formats. See
<blockquote>
<a href="http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/fonts/Unicode.html"
class="offsite">http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/fonts/Unicode.html</a>
</blockquote>
<h2><a name="Get_fonts"></a>How Ghostscript gets fonts when it runs</h2>
<p>
Fonts occupy about 50KB each, so Ghostscript doesn't load them all
automatically when it runs. Instead, as part of normal initialization
Ghostscript runs a file <tt><b>gs_fonts.ps</b></tt>, which arranges to load
fonts on demand using information from the font map. To preload all of the
known fonts, invoke the procedure
<blockquote><tt><b>
loadallfonts
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>
The file <tt><b>prfont.ps</b></tt> contains code to print a sample page of
a font. Load this program by including it in the <tt><b>gs</b></tt>
command line or by invoking
<blockquote><tt><b>
(prfont.ps) run
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>
Then to produce a sampler of a particular font XYZ, invoke
<blockquote><tt><b>
/XYZ DoFont
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>For example,
<blockquote><tt><b>
/Times-Roman DoFont
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>
For more information about how Ghostscript loads fonts during execution,
see <a href="Use.htm#Font_lookup">here</a>.
<hr>
<h2><a name="Platform_fonts"></a>Platform fonts</h2>
<p>
Ghostscript displays text on screen using whatever font technology is
provided by the system on which it runs, by calling the system's API to
display text. On platforms with X Windows, this is X Windows; on MS
Windows it may be TrueType or ATM; Ghostscript neither knows nor cares.
<p>
The PostScript language specifies that fonts are data structures with
particular contents (for instance, they include a bounding box for the
font, an Encoding vector to specify the character set, etc.), and it is
common for PostScript files to use this fact; also, characters can be used
as clipping regions, and can be arbitrarily algorithmically rotated,
skewed, expanded or condensed, etc. Most of this information is available
in some form from the underlying graphics system, but one crucial piece is
not: the actual scalable outlines of the characters, which Ghostscript
needs in order to implement both clipping with character shapes and
arbitrarily transformed characters. Consequently
<blockquote>
Ghostscript needs the scalable outlines of any font mentioned in a
document, and loads them from the disk (<tt><b>.pfa</b></tt>,
<tt><b>.pfb</b></tt>, or <tt><b>.gsf</b></tt>
file) in the usual way, even if it uses the platform's font machinery to
display the characters. In other words, Ghostscript must still be able to
find its font files.
</blockquote>
<p>
To make matters worse, platforms use different names for their standard
fonts. For example, the Times Roman font, for which PostScript files use
the name "<b><tt>Times-Roman</tt></b>", may be known as
"<b><tt>Times-Roman</tt></b>", "<b><tt>Times Roman</tt></b>",
"<b><tt>Tms Rmn</tt></b>",
"<b><tt>Times New Roman</tt></b>", or
"<b><tt>TimesNewRoman</tt></b>". The name may even be completely
different: the usual Helvetica-equivalent TrueType font is called
"<b><tt>Arial</tt></b>". It is possible to deal with this situation by
introducing aliases in Fontmap, but there are two reasons why Ghostscript
does not currently do this:
<ol>
<li>Methods of naming in different systems are so unstandardized that there
seems to be no small set of alternative names likely to cover most
situations. All five of the names above for Times Roman have been seen
under Windows and OS/2, depending on the version of the system, whether it
uses TrueType or ATM, and other unknown factors.
<li>Each alias takes up space at run time. If each of the standard fonts
has three additional aliases, this might amount to 50KB of wasted space,
which may be a lot on some smaller systems.
</ol>
<p>
If you don't seem to be getting nice characters on the screen under MS
Windows, you can try adding aliases to Fontmap, according to the
documentation you'll find in there.
<hr>
<h2><a name="Add_fonts"></a>Adding your own fonts</h2>
<p>
Ghostscript can use any Type 0, 1, 3, 4, or 42 font acceptable to
other PostScript language interpreters or to ATM, including MultiMaster
fonts. Beginning with release 4.0, Ghostscript can also use TrueType fonts
if it was compiled with the "ttfont" option.
<p>
To add fonts of your own, you must edit Fontmap to include at the end an
entry for your new font; the format for entries is documented
in Fontmap itself. Since later entries in Fontmap override earlier
entries, a font you add at the end supersedes any corresponding fonts supplied
with Ghostscript and defined earlier in the file.
<p>
In the PC world, Type 1 fonts are customarily given names ending in
<tt><b>.PFA</b></tt> or <tt><b>.PFB</b></tt>. Ghostscript can use these
directly: you just need to make the entry in Fontmap. If you want to use
with Ghostscript a commercial Type 1 font (such as fonts obtained in
conjunction with Adobe Type Manager), please read carefully the license that
accompanies the font to satisfy yourself that you may do so legally; we take
no responsibility for any possible violations of such licenses. The same
applies to TrueType fonts.
<h3><a name="Convert_BDF"></a>Converting BDF fonts</h3>
<p>
Ghostscript provides a way to construct a (low-quality) Type 1 font from a
bitmap font in the BDF format popular in the Unix world. The shell script
<tt><b>bdftops</b></tt> (Unix) or the command file
<tt><b>bdftops.bat</b></tt> (DOS) converts a BDF file to a
scalable outline using <tt><b>bdftops.ps</b></tt> . Run the
shell command
<blockquote><tt><b>
bdftops BDF_filename [AFM_file1_name ...] gsf_filename fontname<br> UniqueID [XUID] [encodingname]
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>
The arguments have these meanings:
<blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr valign=top> <td><tt><b>BDF_filename</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Input bitmap file in BDF format
<td>
<td>
<tr valign=top> <td><tt><b>AFM_file1_name</b></tt>
<td>
<td>AFM files giving metrics
<td>
<td>(Optional)
<tr valign=top> <td><tt><b>gsf_filename</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Output file
<td>
<td>
<tr valign=top> <td><tt><b>fontname</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Name of the font
<td>
<td>
<tr valign=top> <td><tt><b>UniqueID</b></tt>
<td>
<td>UniqueID (<a href="#Unique_IDs">as described below</a>)
<td>
<td>
<tr valign=top> <td><tt><b>XUID</b></tt>
<td>
<td>XUID, in the form <tt><b>n1.n2.n3...</b></tt> (<a href="#Unique_IDs">as described below</a>)
<td>
<td>(Optional)
<tr valign=top> <td><tt><b>encodingname</b></tt>
<td>
<td>"StandardEncoding" (the default), "ISOLatin1Encoding",<br>"SymbolEncoding", "DingbatsEncoding"
<td>
<td>(Optional)
</table></blockquote>
<p>
For instance
<blockquote><tt><b>
bdftops pzdr.bdf ZapfDingbats.afm pzdr.gsf ZapfDingbats 4100000 1000000.1.41
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>
Then make an entry in Fontmap for the <tt><b>.gsf</b></tt>
file (<tt><b>pzdr.gsf</b></tt> in the example) as
<a href="#Add_fonts">described above</a>.
<hr>
<h2><a name="For_developers"></a>For developers only</h2>
<p>
The rest of this document is very unlikely to be of value to ordinary
users.
<h3><a name="Font_contents"></a>Contents of fonts</h3>
<p>
As noted above, Ghostscript accepts fonts in the same formats as PostScript
interpreters. Type 0, 1, and 3 fonts are documented in the PostScript
Language Reference Manual (Second Edition); detailed documentation for Type
1 fonts appears in a separate Adobe book. Type 2 (compressed format) fonts
are documented in separate Adobe publications. Type 4 fonts are not
documented anywhere; they are essentially Type 1 fonts with a BuildChar or
BuildGlyph procedure. Types 9, 10, and 11 (CIDFontType 0, 1, and 2) and
Type 32 (downloaded bitmap) fonts are documented in Adobe supplements.
Type 42 (encapsulated TrueType) fonts are documented in an Adobe
supplement; the TrueType format is documented in publications available
from Apple and Microsoft. Ghostscript does not support Type 14 (Chameleon)
fonts, which use a proprietary Adobe format.
<h3><a name="Precompiling"></a>Precompiling fonts</h3>
<p>
You can precompile -- convert -- any Type 1 font into C, then compile and
build it into the Ghostscript executable. (Type 1 fonts include any font
whose name ends with <tt><b>.pfa</b></tt> or
<tt><b>.pfb</b></tt>, and it also includes all the
Ghostscript <tt><b>.gsf</b></tt> fonts except the Hershey
fonts.) This has no effect on rendering speed, but it eliminates the time
to load the font dynamically, which may make a big improvement in total
rendering time, especially for multi-page documents. It also reduces the
number of auxiliary files required at run time. Fonts precompiled and
built into Ghostscript this way need not appear in Fontmap, although if
they do appear there, no harm is done.
<p><a name="font2c"></a> The utility for precompiling fonts is named
<tt><b>font2c</b></tt>. Note that since
<tt><b>font2c</b></tt> uses the PostScript language program
<tt><b>font2c.ps</b></tt>, Ghostscript must already be
available to run it, and Fontmap must contain entries for the fonts you
want to compile. For example, to precompile the Times-Italic font,
<blockquote><tt><b>
font2c Times-Italic ptmri.c
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>
The first argument ("<b><tt>Times-Italic</tt></b>" above) is the font's
name and the second ("<b><tt>ptmri.c</tt></b>") is the name of the
resulting C file. You can use any file name you want, as long as it ends
in "<tt><b>.c</b></tt>". It needn't be limited to eight characters unless
your operating system requires this. If "<b><tt>XYZ.gsf</tt></b>" or
"<b><tt>XYZ.pfa</tt></b>" is the font file's name in Fontmap,
"<b><tt>XYZ.c</tt></b>" is a good choice for the C file.
<p>
Under VMS, or other systems whose the C compilers limit the length of
identifiers, you must do something slightly more complicated; for that see
the section on <a href="#Short_identifiers">short identifiers in C</a>. On
VMS also, you must quote the font name ("{font name}") to preserve the
name's mixed upper and lower case. For VMS environments in general see
<a href="Make.htm#VMS">the VMS directions</a> in the documentation on
building Ghostscript, and ignore the rest of this section.
<p>
Note that fonts are not supplied with Ghostscript in precompiled form, since
those files are quite large and can easily be recreated using <a
href="#font2c"><tt><b>font2c</b></tt></a>. There is a makefile target to
run <tt><b>font2c</b></tt> on all the fonts supplied with Ghostscript.
Invoke it with
<blockquote><b><tt>
make fonts_standard_c
</tt></b></blockquote>
<p>Besides running <tt><b>font2c</b></tt>, you must compile the fonts and
link them into the executable. To do this, add the compiled fonts feature
to your platform-specific makefile. See the
<a href="Make.htm#Makefile_overview">overview of makefiles</a> in the
documentation on building Ghostscript for the list of makefiles for each
platform. Find the definition of the <tt><b>FEATURE_DEVS</b></tt> macro in
the makefile, which looks something like this:
<blockquote><tt><b>
FEATURE_DEVS=$(PSD)psl3.dev $(PSD)pdf.dev $(PSD)dpsnext.dev $(PSD)pipe.dev
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>
and add "ccfonts.dev":
<blockquote><tt><b>
FEATURE_DEVS=$(PSD)psl3.dev $(PSD)pdf.dev $(PSD)dpsnext.dev $(PSD)pipe.dev $(PSD)ccfonts.dev
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>
Next you must add the specific fonts to <tt><b>int.mak</b></tt>, the
platform-independent makefile for the interpreter. This makefile already
has rules for the standard fonts supplied with Ghostscript, so if you just
want to compile the standard fonts, you needn't do anything else. Now we
describe how to compile other fonts into the executable, such as the Utopia
or Kana fonts, or your own fonts.
<p>
Suppose you want to compile the Kana fonts into the executable. First pick
one of <b><tt>ccfonts10</tt></b> through <b><tt>ccfonts15</tt></b> as the
place you will do this, say <b><tt>ccfonts10</tt></b>. Add your compiled
font file names, for instance
<blockquote><tt><b>
ccfonts10_=$(CFOBJ)fhirw.$(OBJ)
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>
(Note the underscore "_".) If this makes the line too long, use another
line of the same form, for instance,
<blockquote><tt><b>
ccfonts11_=$(CFOBJ)fkarw.$(OBJ)
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>
Just below the <b><tt>ccfonts10_=</tt></b> line is a line
<blockquote><tt><b>
ccfonts10=
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>
(Note no underscore.) Add your own fonts to the end of this line, replacing
dashes ("-") with underscores ("_") in the font names. For instance:
<blockquote><tt><b>
ccfonts10=Calligraphic_Hiragana
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>
Again, if a line becomes too long, add another line of the same form, for
instance,
<blockquote><tt><b>
ccfonts10=Calligraphic_Hiragana<br>
ccfonts11=Calligraphic_Katakana
</b></tt></blockquote>
<p>
After all the lines of this form, add a pair of lines to compile each font,
separating these entries from the "ccfonts*" lines and from each other with
a blank line. In our example this becomes
<blockquote>
<pre>$(CFOBJ)fhirw.$(OBJ): $(CFGEN)fhirw.c $(CCFONT)
$(CFCC) $(CFO_)fhirw.$(OBJ) $(C_) $(CFGEN)fhirw.c
$(CFOBJ)fkarw.$(OBJ): $(CFGEN)fkarw.c $(CCFONT)
$(CFCC) $(CFO_)fkarw.$(OBJ) $(C_) $(CFGEN)fkarw.c
</pre></blockquote>
<p>
Finally, run <tt><b>make</b></tt> to build an executable that includes the
fonts you added. They are present in <b><tt>FontDirectory</tt></b> when
Ghostscript starts up.
<h3><a name="Short_identifiers"></a>Precompiling fonts on platforms with identifier length limits</h3>
<p>
On some platforms the C compiler or linker limits the number of significant
characters usable in an identifier. On such platforms, you must do a
little extra work.
<p>
Let <em><b>N</b></em> be the maximum number of significant characters in an
identifier (typically 31). For each font whose name is longer than
<em><b>N</b></em>-5 characters, pick an arbitrary identifier that we will
call the "short name". This can be any string you want, as long as it
contains only letters, digits, and underscores; is no longer than
<em><b>N</b></em>-5 characters; and is different from all other font names
and short names. A good choice for this is the name of the C file. There
is no harm in doing this for fonts with names shorter than
<em><b>N</b></em>-5 characters, but it's unnecessary.
<p>
You must do two different things for fonts that require a short name.
<ol>
<li>You must supply the short name as a third argument to
<tt><b>font2c</b></tt>. For example, to compile
<b><tt>NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic</tt></b> using the short name
<b><tt>pncbi</tt></b>,
<blockquote><tt><b>
font2c NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic pncbi.c pncbi
</b></tt></blockquote>
<li>
Then when you add the font name to the definition of one of the ccfonts*
macros in the makefile, use the short name, not the actual font name, for
instance,
<blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr> <td>Use
<td>
<td><tt><b>ccfonts12=pncbi</b></tt>
<tr> <td>Rather than
<td>
<td><tt><b>ccfonts12=NewCenturySchlbk_BoldItalic</b></tt>
</table></blockquote>
</ol>
<p>
Everything else is as described above. This procedure doesn't change the
name of the font in Fontmap or as seen from within Ghostscript; it just
works around a limitation of some older compilers.
<hr>
<h3><a name="Unique_IDs"></a>Font names and unique IDs</h3>
<p>
If you create your own fonts and will use them only within your own
organization, you should use <tt><b>UniqueID</b></tt> values between
4000000 and 4999999, coded like this (see the <a href="#Codes">tables of
codes</a> for font file names below):
<blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><th colspan=5 bgcolor="#CCCC00"><hr><font size="+1">Coding of UniqueID "<tt><b>4TTWVE0</b></tt>"</font><hr>
<tr> <td><tt><b>TT</b></tt>
<td>
<td><a href="#Typeface">Typeface</a>
<td>
<td>two-digit identifier
<tr> <td><tt><b>W</b></tt>
<td>
<td><a href="#Weight">Weight</a>
<td>
<td>normal, bold, etc.
<tr> <td><tt><b>V</b></tt>
<td>
<td><a href="#Variant">Variant</a>
<td>
<td>normal, italic, etc.
<tr> <td><tt><b>E</b></tt>
<td>
<td><a href="#Expansion">Expansion</a>
<td>
<td>normal, condensed, etc.
</table></blockquote>
<p>
This scheme will not work forever: as soon there are more than 99
typefaces, or more than 9 weights or variants, we will have to do something
else. But it suffices for the near future.
<p>
If you plan to distribute fonts, ask Adobe to assign you some UniqueIDs and
also an <tt><b>XUID</b></tt> for your organization. Contact
<blockquote><address>
Unique ID Coordinator<br>
Adobe Developers Association<br>
Adobe Systems, Inc.<br>
345 Park Avenue<br>
San Jose, CA 95110-2704<br>
+1-408-536-9000 telephone (ADA)<br>
+1-408-536-6883 fax<br>
<a href="mailto:fontdev-person@adobe.com">fontdev-person@adobe.com</a><br>
</address></blockquote>
<p>
The XUID is a Level 2 PostScript feature that serves the same function as
the UniqueID, but is not limited to a single 24-bit integer. The
<tt><b>bdftops</b></tt> program creates XUIDs of the form
"<tt><b>[-X- 0 -U-]</b></tt>" where "<tt><b>-X-</b></tt>" is the
organization XUID and "<tt><b>-U-</b></tt>" is the UniqueID. (Aladdin
Enterprises' organization XUID, which appears in a few places in various
font-related files distributed with Ghostscript, is 107; do not use this for
your own fonts that you distribute.)
<p>
Because Ghostscript runs on many different systems, including DOS, the
names of font files can be no longer than 8 characters. We therefore
construct a font's filename <tt><b>FTTWVVVE.gsf</b></tt>
similarly to the construction for temporary UniqueIDs.
<blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><th colspan=5 bgcolor="#CCCC00"><hr><font size="+1">Coding of font file name "<tt><b>FTTWVVVE.gsf</b></tt>"</font><hr>
<tr> <td><tt><b>F</b></tt>
<td>
<td><a href="#Foundries">Foundry</a>
<td>
<td>
<tr> <td><tt><b>TT</b></tt>
<td>
<td><a href="#Typeface">Typeface</a>
<td>
<td>two-digit identifier
<tr> <td><tt><b>W</b></tt>
<td>
<td><a href="#Weight">Weight</a>
<td>
<td>normal, bold, etc.
<tr> <td><tt><b>V</b></tt>
<td>
<td><a href="#Variant">Variant</a>
<td>
<td>normal, italic, etc.
<tr> <td><tt><b>E</b></tt>
<td>
<td><a href="#Expansion">Expansion</a>
<td>
<td>normal, condensed, etc.
</table></blockquote>
<p>
Since a font can have multiple variants (for example, Lucida Regular Sans
Typewriter Italic) we allocate three letters to that; if a font has four
variants, you're on your own. If a font does have multiple variants, it's
best to add the expansion letter "<b><tt>r</tt></b>" to make clear which
letters are variants and which the expansion. This scheme is very close to
the one proposed in "Filenames for fonts", published in the first 1990
issue of <em>TUGboat</em> (the journal of the TeX Users Group).
<h3><a name="Codes"></a>Codes used to make font file names</h3>
<p>
In the following tables we make no attempt to be exhaustive: instead we
have simply allocated entries for those things that we needed for the fonts
that we are actually distributing.
<p>
<a name="Foundries"></a>
<blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><th colspan=3 bgcolor="#CCCC00"><hr><font size="+1">Font foundry codes</font><hr>
<tr> <th>ID
<th>
<th align=left>Foundry
<tr> <td colspan=3><hr>
<tr> <td><tt><b>b</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Bitstream
<tr> <td><tt><b>f</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Freely distributable and public-domain
<tr> <td><tt><b>hr</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Hershey
<tr> <td><tt><b>n</b></tt>
<td>
<td>IBM
<tr> <td><tt><b>p</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Adobe ("p" for PostScript)
<tr> <td><tt><b>u</b></tt>
<td>
<td>URW[++]
</table></blockquote>
<p>
<a name="Typeface"></a>
<blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><th colspan=7 bgcolor="#CCCC00"><hr><font size="+1">Typeface codes</font><hr>
<tr valign=bottom> <th>ID
<td>
<th align=left>Name
<td>
<th align=left>Filename<br>prefix
<td>
<th align=left>Source
<tr> <td colspan=7><hr>
<tr> <td><tt><b>08</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Avant Garde
<td>
<td><tt><b>pag</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Adobe
<tr> <td><tt><b>11</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Bookman
<td>
<td><tt><b>pbk</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Adobe
<tr> <td><tt><b>01</b></tt>
<td>
<td>CharterBT
<td>
<td><tt><b>bch</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Bitstream
<tr> <td><tt><b>02</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Courier
<td>
<td><tt><b>ncr</b></tt>
<td>
<td>IBM
<tr> <td><tt><b>03</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Helvetica
<td>
<td><tt><b>phv</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Adobe
<tr> <td><tt><b>04</b></tt>
<td>
<td>New Century Schoolbook
<td>
<td><tt><b>pnc</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Adobe
<tr> <td><tt><b>09</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Palatino
<td>
<td><tt><b>ppl</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Adobe
<tr> <td><tt><b>05</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Symbol
<td>
<td><tt><b>psy</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Adobe
<tr> <td><tt><b>06</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Times
<td>
<td><tt><b>ptm</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Adobe
<tr> <td>--
<td>
<td>Utopia
<td>
<td><tt><b>put</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Adobe
<tr> <td><tt><b>07</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Zapf Chancery
<td>
<td><tt><b>zc</b></tt>
<td>
<td>public domain
<tr> <td><tt><b>10</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Zapf Dingbats
<td>
<td><tt><b>pzd</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Adobe
<tr> <td><tt><b>12</b></tt>
<td>
<td>public domain Cyrillic
<td>
<td><tt><b>fcy</b></tt>
<td>
<td>public domain
<tr> <td><tt><b>13</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Kevin Hartig Hiragana
<td>
<td><tt><b>fhi</b></tt>
<td>
<td>shareware
<tr> <td><tt><b>14</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Kevin Hartig Katakana
<td>
<td><tt><b>fka</b></tt>
<td>
<td>shareware
<tr> <td><tt><b>90</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Hershey Gothic English
<td>
<td><tt><b>hrge</b></tt>
<td>
<td>freeware
<tr> <td><tt><b>91</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Hershey Gothic Italian
<td>
<td><tt><b>hrit</b></tt>
<td>
<td>freeware
<tr> <td><tt><b>92</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Hershey Gothic German
<td>
<td><tt><b>hrgr</b></tt>
<td>
<td>freeware
<tr> <td><tt><b>93</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Hershey Greek
<td>
<td><tt><b>hrgk</b></tt>
<td>
<td>freeware
<tr> <td><tt><b>94</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Hershey Plain
<td>
<td><tt><b>hrpl</b></tt>
<td>
<td>freeware
<tr> <td><tt><b>95</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Hershey Script
<td>
<td><tt><b>hrsc</b></tt>
<td>
<td>freeware
<tr> <td><tt><b>96</b></tt>
<td>
<td>Hershey Symbol
<td>
<td><tt><b>hrsy</b></tt>
<td>
<td>freeware
</table></blockquote>
<p>
<a name="Weight"></a>
<blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><th colspan=5 bgcolor="#CCCC00"><hr><font size="+1">Font weight codes</font><hr>
<tr> <th>ID
<td>
<th align=left>Type
<td>
<th align=left>Filename
<tr> <td colspan=5><hr>
<tr> <td><tt><b>0</b></tt>
<td>
<td>normal
<td>
<td><tt><b>r</b></tt>
<tr> <td><tt><b>1</b></tt>
<td>
<td>bold
<td>
<td><tt><b>b</b></tt>
<tr> <td><tt><b>2</b></tt>
<td>
<td>book
<td>
<td><tt><b>k</b></tt>
<tr> <td><tt><b>3</b></tt>
<td>
<td>demi
<td>
<td><tt><b>d</b></tt>
<tr> <td><tt><b>4</b></tt>
<td>
<td>light
<td>
<td><tt><b>l</b></tt>
<tr> <td>
<tr><th colspan=5 bgcolor="#CCCC00"><hr><font size="+1"><a name="Variant"></a>Font variants</font><hr>
<tr> <th>ID
<td>
<th align=left>Type
<td>
<th align=left>Filename
<tr> <td colspan=5><hr>
<tr> <td><tt><b>0</b></tt>
<td>
<td>normal
<td>
<td><tt><b>r</b></tt> (omitted when weight is normal)
<tr> <td><tt><b>1</b></tt>
<td>
<td>italic
<td>
<td><tt><b>i</b></tt>
<tr> <td><tt><b>2</b></tt>
<td>
<td>oblique
<td>
<td><tt><b>o</b></tt>
<tr valign=top> <td><tt><b>3</b></tt>
<td>
<td>script, handwritten, swash
<td>
<td><tt><b>w</b></tt>
<tr> <td>
<tr><th colspan=5 bgcolor="#CCCC00"><hr><font size="+1"><a name="Expansion"></a>Expansion</font><hr>
<tr> <th>ID
<td>
<th align=left>Type
<td>
<th align=left>Filename
<tr> <td colspan=5><hr>
<tr> <td><tt><b>0</b></tt>
<td>
<td>normal
<td>
<td><tt><b>r</b></tt> (omitted when weight and variant are normal)
<tr> <td><tt><b>1</b></tt>
<td>
<td>narrow
<td>
<td><tt><b>n</b></tt>
</table></blockquote>
<hr>
<h2><a name="Use_gs_fonts_with_X"></a>Using Ghostscript fonts on X Windows displays</h2>
<p>
The standard X11 distribution can display various kinds of fonts, including
the Adobe Type 1 format, so font files distributed with Ghostscript can be
used on X Windows displays. Beginning with Ghostscript version 6.0, the
font archive contains the directory files needed to map Ghostscript's font
files to XLFDs. Those files are named "<b><tt>fonts.dir</tt></b>" and
"<b><tt>fonts.scale</tt></b>". There are two main methods to configure
your display to use these files.
<ul>
<li><a href="#Using_xset">With <b><tt>xset</tt></b></a> any user can add a
new directory to the font search path for the duration of a session.
<li>An administrator with root access can <a
href="#Font_permanent_installation">add the Ghostscript font directory
permanently</a> to the <a href="#X_font_catalog">X font server's
catalog</a> or to an <a href="#Xfree86_fontpath">X display server's list of
directories</a>.
</ul>
<h3><a name="Using_xset"></a>Using <b><tt>xset</tt></b></h3>
<p>
Users without root access can add the Ghostscript font directories to the
font search path using <b><tt>xset</tt></b>. Such a setting is transient
and must be repeated each time the display server is reset or restarted,
typically at login, so the call to <b><tt>xset</tt></b> should be added to
the user's "<b><tt>.xsession</tt></b>" or "<b><tt>.xinitrc</tt></b>"
startup script to make the fonts available at each login.
<p>
To add a new font directory, invoke <b><tt>xset</tt></b> like this:
<blockquote>
<b><tt>xset fp+</tt> <em>{directory}</em></b>
</blockquote>
<p>
where <b><em>{directory}</em></b> is the full pathname to the directory
containing the fonts on the host running the X display server. For common
Ghostscript installations the path is
<blockquote>
<b><tt>/usr/local/Ghostscript/share/fonts</tt></b>
</blockquote>
<h3><a name="Font_permanent_installation"></a>Permanent installation</h3>
<p> A system administrator, or anyone with the necessary root privilege,
can make Ghostscript's fonts permanently available to the managed X display
servers. This setup depends on the servers and the methods used
to make the fonts available.
<h4><a name="Configure_xfs"></a>Configuring the <b><tt>xfs</tt></b> font server</h4>
<p>
An X display server can obtain its font resources from a dedicated X font
server. <b><tt>xfs</tt></b> is a prototype font server included in the X
Consortium X11 distribution. It is configured with a file located in a
directory whose exact location is installation-dependent and could be any
of
<blockquote><b><tt>
/usr/lib/X11/fs/config
<br>/usr/X11/lib/X11/fs/config
<br>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config
</tt></b></blockquote>
<p>
or some similar name. You can also use <b><tt>xfs</tt></b>'s
"<b><tt>-config</tt></b>" command-line option to specify the location of
the configuration file.
<p><a name="X_font_catalog"></a>
The configuration file designates a list ("catalog") of directories, each
of which contains fonts and a font mapping database (the file
"<b><tt>fonts.dir</tt></b>"). This list is specified with the
"<b><tt>catalogue=</tt></b>" keyword followed by a list of absolute
directory paths separated by commas. To add the Ghostscript directory,
include its full name in the catalog list, for example:
<blockquote><b><tt>
catalogue = /usr/local/share/Ghostscript/fonts/,
<br>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,
<br>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,
<br>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
<br>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,
<br>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
</tt></b></blockquote>
<p>
The fonts are searched in the order the directories are specified, so an
XLFD mapped by the Ghostscript directory could shadow a previous similar
description specified in the following directories. Once the file is
modified, instruct the font server to reload the configuration file by
sending it the USR1 signal:
<blockquote>
<b><tt>kill -HUP</tt> <em>{pid}</em></b>
</blockquote>
<p>
where <b><em>{pid}</em></b> is the font server process's numeric process
ID, as obtained with the "<b><tt>ps</tt></b>" command. Be sure to check
that the server is still alive after signaling it: it is very picky and
could decide to shut itself down if something is wrong in the new
configuration. If this happens, restart the server by hand and try to
figure out from its output what's happening. If the font server dies,
display servers using it will experience problems, so be sure to send the
signal from the console or from a display not using that font server!
<h4><a name="Configure_Xfree86"></a>Xfree86 display servers</h4>
<p><a name="Xfree86_fontpath"></a>
With the family of Xfree86 display servers, adding a new font directory
permanently requires editing the "<b><tt>/etc/XF86Config</tt></b>" setup
file to add a new "<b><tt>FontPath</tt></b>" to the "<b><tt>Files</tt></b>"
section:
<blockquote>
<b><tt>Section "Files"
<br> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
<br> FontPath "/usr/local/share/Ghostscript/fonts"
<br> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
<br> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
<br> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
<br> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
<br> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
<br>EndSection</tt></b>
</blockquote>
<p>
The fonts are searched in the order the directories are specified, so an
XLFD mapped by the Ghostscript directory could shadow a previous similar
description specified in the following directories. Once this global
configuration is edited, the new fonts become available to all Xfree86
servers in use on that host. If a server is running, it must be restarted
to take effect: just quit the current session in the usual way. If the
server is under the control of <b><tt>xdm</tt></b>, you may have to kill
it, because it is usually reset only between successive sessions.
<p>
This section by Bertrand Petit
<<a href="mailto:eegs@phoe.frmug.org">eegs@phoe.frmug.org</a>>
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This software is provided AS-IS with no warranty, either express or
implied.
This software is distributed under license and may not be copied,
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For more information about licensing, please refer to
http://www.ghostscript.com/licensing/. For information on
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