On Friday, 7 October 2022 10:35:55 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > One thing I don't understand is why "(gs)" (which, IIRC, means, > "whatever Ghostscript's font search path reported in 'gs -h' is) comes > right after the URW fonts directory when searching for Adobe or generic > fonts but all the way at the end of the search path for fonts using the > 'U' (URW) foundry. > > Deri may well have explained this to me before and I have forgotten. If > the distinct placement is deliberate, we should add an explanatory > comment.
Hi Branden, So, there may be two sources of URW fonts, the ones which may be supplied with ghostscript (remember some versions supply them in %rom% which means they are not available to external programs), and as separate package generated from URW sources. There is no guarantee that the fonts from different sources are the same, although the same glyphs will have identical widths. If using grops and ghostscript to produce pdfs, you will be using the ghostscript supplied fonts, so if you are using gropdf font TR it makes sense to use the same font which grops/ghostscript would use. When using U-TR (since you are specifically requesting the URW fonts are used) it makes sense to use the URW fonts first. If one of the sources is not available the fallback is to use the one which is available, in which case the download file would have the same paths for both foundries, default and U. Even if there is only one source for the URW fonts, the difference between the default and U foundries is that afmtodit has been run on the files found so the U- fonts will contain more glyphs than the default fonts copied from the grops directory. I hope this explains why it makes sense to reverse the order for the two foundries. I'll leave the appropriate comment to you. Cheers Deri
