TTF2PT1_X2GS(1) TTF2PT1 Font Converter TTF2PT1_X2GS(1)NAMEttf2pt1_x2gs - font installer for Ghostscript
SYNOPSISttf2pt1_x2gs [config-file]
DESCRIPTION
The fonts generated with ttf2pt1 work fine with Ghostscript by
themselves. The script `x2gs' (or `ttf2pt1_x2gs' when installed into a
public directory, to avoid name conflicts with other programs) links
the font files from the X11 direcotry into the Ghostscript directory
and automatically creates the description file (Fontmap) in Ghostscript
format.
If the configuration file is not specified as an argument then the file
`convert.cfg' in the current directory is used, just like the `convert'
script does. Indeed, this configuration file is used for both scripts.
The Ghostscript-related parameters in the configuration file are:
DSTDIR - the X11 font directory used by `x2gs' as the source of the
fonts. This parameter is common with the X11 configuration.
GSDIR - the base directory of Ghostsript. If this parameter is set to
an empty string then `convert' won't call `x2gs'. So if you want to get
only the X11 fonts installed then set this parameter to an empty
string. This directory may vary on various system, so please check your
system and set this value accordingly before running the script.
GSFONTDIR - the font directory of Ghostscript. In the standard
Ghostscript installation it's a subdirectory of GSDIR but some systems
may use completely different directories.
GSCONFDIR - the configuration subdirectory of Ghostscript that contains
the Fontmap file.
INSTALLFONTMAP - if the value is set to YES then install the entries
for the new fonts right into the main Fontmap file. Otherwise just
leave the file Fontmap.ttf in the Ghostscript configuration directory.
After preparing the configuration file run the script. It symbolicaly
links all the font files and creates the description file Fontmap.ttf
in GSCONDFIR. After that there are two choices.
If the option INSTALLFONTMAP was set to YES then the font descriptions
are also automatically installed into the master Fontmap file. The
script is clever enough to detect if it was run multiple times with the
same directories and if so it replaces the old Fontmap entries with the
new ones instead of just accumulating all of them. You may also run it
multiple times for multiple X11 directories and all the results will be
properly collected in the Fontmap. But it's your responsibility to
watch that the names of the font files don't overlap. If the X11 font
directory gets renamed then you have to remove its font entries from
the Fontmap and only after that re-run `x2gs' for the new directory.
On the other hand if the option INSTALLFONTMAP was set to NO then go to
the GSCONFDIR directory and insert the contents of Fontmap.ttf into the
Fontmap file manually. This step may be left manual to make the
installation a little bit more safe.
After that you may also want to redefine some of the aliases in Fontmap
to refer to the newly installed fonts. But the redefinition of the
aliases may be dangerous if the width of characters in the new font
will be different from the old font. Alas, there is no visible
solution of this problem yet.
FILES
· /usr/local/share/ttf2pt1/scripts/convert.cfg.sample
· /usr/local/share/ttf2pt1/scripts/*
· /usr/local/share/ttf2pt1/README
· /usr/local/share/ttf2pt1/FONTS
· /usr/local/share/ttf2pt1/*
· /usr/local/bin/ttf2pt1
SEE ALSO
· the ttf2pt1(1) manpage
· the ttf2pt1_convert(1) manpage
· the t1asm(1) manpage
3rd Berkeley Distribution version 3.4.4 TTF2PT1_X2GS(1)
