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Date:      Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:17:25 -0700
From:      Ken Marx <kmarx@bigshed.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Ken Marx <kmarx@bigshed.com>
Subject:   truetype fonts w/ ghostscript problems?
Message-ID:  <361267A5.2B7B1637@bigshed.com>

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Hi,

I'm seeing that some ttf fonts have problems when running with
ghostscript5.10 on freeBSD 2.2.6. (I'm using xfstt099 as my trueType
font server.)

Many fonts work fine. Some botch badly.

Here's an example of what I'm seeing with, say, times.ttf 
(Times New Roman Regular:Version 2, Monotype Corporation plc/Type Solutions
Inc. 1990-1992):

----------------------------
% gs prfont.ps
Aladdin Ghostscript 5.10 (1997-11-23)
Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from
/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb... 1945208 578017 1300092 13643
0 done.
GS>/times DoFont
Loading times font from /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/times.ttf... Error:
/rangecheck in --string--
Operand stack:
   F   times   Font   times   18687   times   --nostringval--   times  
(/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/times.ttf)   false   sfnts  
--nostringval--  
(\000\001\000\000\000\023\001\000\000\004\0000LTSH\200\037\347\352\000\000\001<\000\0
...... <huge octal dump followed by error and left two-deep on the stack>
--------------------------

I've tried sending mail to Dave Bodenstab (imdave@synet.net), who
wrote a freebsd tutorial for font stuff 
(www.pt.freebsd.org/tutorials/fonts/fonts.html). But the mail bounced.

Thanks in advance for any help,
k.
-- 
Ken Marx.

We cannot possibly do our job unless we attempt to stand pat and re-engineer 
the process on the overarching goals.

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