Salut Didier, Sorry for the late reply.
Didier Link <did...@famille-link.fr> writes: > 2008-08-12 23:44:53.919723 Ray Johnston > Remove 'Actual Fonts' references in the Fontmap that connected > the URW FontName to an 8.3 filename that we no longer use. > [Resource/Init/Fontmap.GS] Who is "we"? :-) `gnu-gs-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz' from gnu.org still uses the 8.3 file names AFAICS. [...] > Can you send the output of 'gs --help' for looking at the Search path > configured for your version ? Here is the relevant part: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Search path: . : %rom%Resource/Init/ : %rom%lib/ : /nix/store/b69pcm9dr47b7xgsh17xnqblzby2gbsq-ghostscript-8.64.0/share/ghostscript/8.64/Resource/Init : /nix/store/b69pcm9dr47b7xgsh17xnqblzby2gbsq-ghostscript-8.64.0/share/ghostscript/8.64/lib : /nix/store/b69pcm9dr47b7xgsh17xnqblzby2gbsq-ghostscript-8.64.0/share/ghostscript/8.64/Resource/Font : /nix/store/b69pcm9dr47b7xgsh17xnqblzby2gbsq-ghostscript-8.64.0/share/ghostscript/fonts : /nix/store/b69pcm9dr47b7xgsh17xnqblzby2gbsq-ghostscript-8.64.0/share/fonts/default/ghostscript : /nix/store/b69pcm9dr47b7xgsh17xnqblzby2gbsq-ghostscript-8.64.0/share/fonts/default/Type1 : /nix/store/b69pcm9dr47b7xgsh17xnqblzby2gbsq-ghostscript-8.64.0/share/fonts/default/TrueType : /usr/lib/DPS/outline/base : /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 : /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType : /nix/store/jl4fbnysss51cq26swdhyjsc5z6mvsgv-cups-1.3.10/share/cups/fonts Initialization files are compiled into the executable. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The fonts from `gnu-gs-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz' and `gnu-gs-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz' are all right under /nix/store/b69pcm9dr47b7xgsh17xnqblzby2gbsq-ghostscript-8.64.0/share/ghostscript/fonts/. > Artifex has incorporated the URW fonts directly in the Resources loaded > in memory by gs, I've not included this fonts because I don't want to > have more included package in the executable than necessary. > > Any comments about this option ? Hmm, I'm afraid I don't sufficiently understand the pros and cons of this option. I suppose 90% of the PostScript files that get interpreted will actually need some of the URW+ fonts, so maybe it makes sense to have them bundled with the executable, provided it's noticeably faster than loading them from the files. Thanks, Ludo'.
