Further to my previous posts, I have come up with more problems:
1. The instructions in the Fonts-HOWTO (specifically,this page--
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/x346.html) are for an outdated
version of ttf2pt1. The line in the Perl script that reads:
open ( R, "sh -c \"ttf2pt1 -A $fontname - 2>/dev/null\" |" );
Should be changed to:
open ( R, "sh -c \"ttf2pt1 -GAf $fontname - \" |" );
2. In my installation (gs 7.05.5 on Gentoo 1.2), the GhostScript Fontmap
file is not in the GhostScript search path. (The last few lines of
output from gs -h tell you what the search path is.) I moved Fontmap to
/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts (which IS in the search path). Now when I
do gs prfont.ps, and then /ArialMT DoFont (at the GS prompt), it shows
me the contents of arial.ttf. So far, so good.
3. When I print an Hebrew file (all Narkisim) from KWord to a ps file,
all the Hebrew characters appear as squares. (This is progress! Before,
there were just blank spaces.)
(I had already checked the Narkisim font with gs prfont.ps--I could see
the Hebrew characters.)
Does anyone know how I can make the final step to being able to create,
view and print ps files with READABLE Hebrew?
TIA,
Martin Polley
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hetz Ben Hamo [mailto:hetz@;witch.dyndns.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:53 PM
To: Martin Polley; Linux IL
Cc: Tzafrir Cohen
Subject: Re: Hebrew fonts for GhostScript
On Thursday 07 November 2002 11:41, Martin Polley wrote:
> Oops--I accidentally hit "Send" before I finished writing...
>
> It should have said:
>
> OK, now I can reply to my own question (after some RTFMing):
>
> The answer is here, in the Fonts-HOWTO:
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/x346.html
Hmm, excellent!
Tzafrir, would you be kind enough to add this to the hebrew section in
IGLU
please? I know LOTS of people here had problems reading hebrew PDF files
due
to problems with fonts & ghostscripts..
Thanks,
Hetz
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