[lug] Type1 font installation? And KWord formats

Evelyn Mitchell efm at tummy.com
Wed May 12 15:21:59 MDT 2004


* On 2004-05-12 14:49 Elyse M. Grasso <emgrasso at data-raptors.com> wrote:
> On Friday 07 May 2004 08:01 am, Elyse M. Grasso wrote:
> The answer to my original question appears to be that there is no one document 
> that addresses all of the major users of fonts.

If you come up with a good description of how to do this, it would be a
very useful document to add to linuxdocs.

> The info from the how-to on ghostscript does not refer to paths that are 
> present in a fedora installation. Is there a way to ask ghostscript what 
> fonts it knows about? What is the best way to add a new directory of fonts to 
> the ones GhostScript knows about?

In briefly reading the ghostscript man page, it looks like you can specify
an environment variable:
   GS_FONTPATH
                 Path names used to search for fonts


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