Table of Contentsgsftopk - render a ghostscript font in TeX pk format gsftopk [-q] font dpi - font
- Name of the font to be created.
- dpi
- Desired resolution of the font to be created, in dots per inch. This may be a real number.
gsftopk is a program which calls up the ghostscript program gs(1) to render a given font at a given resolution. It packs the resulting characters into the pk file format and writes them to a file whose name is formed from the font name and the resolution (rounded to the nearest integer). This program should normally be called by a script, such as xdvimakepk, to create fonts on demand.
gsftopk obtains the character widths from the file, which must exist in the standard search path. It also must be able to find a file psfonts.map (formatted as in dvips(1)), listing the available fonts.
- -q
- Operate quietly; i.e., without writing any messages to the standard output.
- TEXFONTS
- Colon-separated list of directories to search for the file associated with the font. An extra colon in the list will include the system default path at that point. A double slash will enable recursive subdirectory searching at that point in the path.
- DVIPSHEADERS
- Colon-separated list of directories to search for the ghostscript driver file render.ps and for any PostScript font files or files). An extra colon in the list behaves as with TEXFONTS.
- TEXCONFIG
- Path to search for the file psfonts.map. Only the first such file will be used.
gsftopk sometimes has trouble with fonts with very complicated characters (such as the Seal of the University of California). This is because gsftopk uses the charpath operator to determine the bounding box of each character. If the character is too complicated, then it will exceed the allowable length of a path; this causes gsftopk to terminate with an error message - Call to gs stopped by signal 10
(The number may vary from system to system; it corresponds to a bus error or a segmentation fault.) This is actually a design limitation in PostScript, exacerbated by a bug in ghostscript, rather than a bug in gsftopk itself. To work around this bug, gsftopk can be instructed to use the bounding box provided with the font (if one exists) instead of finding a bounding box for each character. To do this, include the string
- /usefontbbox true def
in the psfonts.map file; e.g.,
- ucseal """/usefontbbox true def"""
This will not affect use of the font by dvips.
gs(1), gftopk(1), tex(1), xdvi(1), dvips(1) Written by Paul Vojta. This program was inspired by gsrenderfont, which was written by Karl Berry.
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