printing with wine thru ghostscript

[Michael Torrie]

I think I just used ttf2afm (which comes in the rpm tetex-afm)

Michael


Ian Pilcher wrote:

> Michael L Torrie wrote:
> >
> > The printing howto is a little vague in this area.  How do I go about
> > printing through ghostscript from windows?  I know how to teach
> > ghostscript to print the ttfs (generate the appropriate afms, add them
> > to the fontmap).  Where do I place the afms for wine to use?  If I
> > provide afms for each truetype font for wine, and then use a postscript
> > printer ppd file, and set lpt1 to be |lpr, will this work?
> >
>
> AFAIK you can put the AFM files wherever you want.  The key is to add
> the appropriate entries to the [afmfiles] section of ~/.wine.config.
> (You may be able to use an [afmdirs] section now; check the wine-devel
> archive on www.winehq.com.)
>
> In its current incarnation, the Wine PostScript driver will only use
> fonts that are listed in the PPD file, so you will have to edit the PPD
> file if you want to use TrueType fonts (straightforward but tedious).
> This should change in the near future, though.
>
> You will also have to make the appropriate entries in your WIN.INI file
> and registry.  (See the "psdrv.reg" file for information on the required
> registry entries.)
>
> BTW, I've had a heck of a time generating AFMs for TrueType fonts that
> get scaled properly by the driver.  What do you use to create the AFMs?
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Ian Pilcher                                       pilcher at concentric.net
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