On Friday, 17 May 2019 23:05:17 BST Mikkel Meinike Nielsen wrote: > Thanks for advice Deri > > So that should mean that viewing it in an other PDF viewer would show the > right fonts?? > > "One possibility is get groff to actually embed the used base fonts in the > postscript file it produces, by editing the "download" file with entries > which point to the URW fonts which I believe you have." > > I actually don't understand this. Don't understand what to do practically. > > //Mikkel
Hi Mikkel, Dale touched on installing fonts so that they can be embedded in the postscript file, and recommended the detailed instructions on Peter Schaffter's mom website. However, the first step would be try viewing the postscript file with a different viewer, which hopefully has these default fonts, or equivalent, available. What groff calls "font files", i.e. the HR file you have in the devps directory, are not fonts in themselves, in the way a postscript font (usually .pfa or .pfb) contains all the information needed to render that font. The groff font files only hold sufficient information to typeset that font on the page. Rendering of the font requires drawing commands which are held in the postscript font, and not in the groff font. As I said, the base fonts which are defined for postscript are expected to be accessible to any device/program which renders postscript files. Every postscript printer will have those fonts in a rom or occasionally a hard disk. Ghostscript is a program which can render postscript files and you will find that it comes with copies of the base postscript fonts within its Resources directory. Perhaps you could transfer the postscript file generated within Termux to another system, and view the postscript on that system. If it looks Ok then you will know that the problem is with the postscript viewer you are using.
