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| Brenkuu | Good morning gentleman | 07:11.55 |
| kens | Ah, back again :-) | 07:12.04 |
| Brenkuu | *gentlemen | 07:12.05 |
| | Haha | 07:12.09 |
| | Yes, and I have a question for you.. | 07:12.14 |
| kens | You've got 2 hours then I'm out for a bit | 07:12.28 |
| Brenkuu | no problem :) | 07:12.36 |
| | So this same file over and over we've been testing with. It has 3 fonts it says in the PS. But during conversion, it converts 4 fonts. | 07:12.47 |
| | https://i.imgur.com/jtadZzr.png | 07:13.21 |
| kens | PostScript is a programming language, the only way to be sure how many fonts it is using is to interpret the program code. relying on comments is not guaranteed | 07:13.35 |
| Brenkuu | So I have forced the TTF for courier, ArialMT and boldMT | 07:13.35 |
| | Because the issue is when we see these gaps with the I in the converted documents, it say 'Helvetica' when we look at them | 07:14.17 |
| | So somehow, Helvetica is being used. Is that NimbusSans-Regular? | 07:14.27 |
| kens | Umm possibly, let me look | 07:14.36 |
| | Yes, if you look in fontmap.GS you can see the substitution there | 07:15.49 |
| | "/Helvetica/NimbusSans-Regular ;" | 07:16.07 |
| Brenkuu | one moment | 07:16.07 |
| | Thank you | 07:17.06 |
| kens | Be aware that Helvetica is the default font, so it can be loaded even if it isn't used. | 07:17.19 |
| Brenkuu | Well we see it being used because if we look at the font in the PDF, it says helvetica | 07:17.43 |
| | let me investi-mi-gate a little more | 07:17.52 |
| kens | OK then it is being used.... | 07:18.00 |
| Brenkuu | Let's say I have a new folder with a bunch of fonts. Can I tell it via commandline, to only check that directory for the fonts? | 07:38.31 |
| | Instead of using the ENV variable | 07:38.38 |
| | For testing | 07:38.46 |
| | I tried using the -I "C:\newfonts" | 07:39.16 |
| | but it didn't work | 07:39.20 |
| kens | Ghostscript will (I believe, its not my field) check everywhere its been told to when lokoing for fonts. So that's the GS_FONTPATH environment variable, anything in -I, the ROm file system etc. | 07:41.31 |
| | I can't remember the precedence, it might be in the documentation, there's a section on 'How Ghostscritp finds fonts' | 07:42.07 |
| | Using -I won't do anything with fonts unless thre's a fontmap.GS i the folder though | 07:42.27 |
| Brenkuu | ok, that is what I wondered about the -I | 07:42.40 |
| | thanks | 07:42.41 |
| chrisl | You can set -sFONTPATH= on the command line | 07:42.58 |
| Brenkuu | let me try, thanks | 07:44.35 |
| chrisl | That will just have the same effect as setting GS_FONTPATH in the environment | 07:45.34 |
| Brenkuu | That is what I was looking for ;) | 07:45.42 |
| | * :) | 07:45.45 |
| | In this folder: C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.26\Resource\Font | 10:11.07 |
| | What format are those fonts? There are no file extensions. So I'm curious | 10:11.18 |
| | if I label it as .ttf for example, it won't let me preview. | 10:11.34 |
| chrisl | They're Type 1 | 10:12.15 |
| Brenkuu | So, after testing this a lot.. | 10:17.05 |
| | I see that when I force nimbus (courier) vs. nimbus (helvetica), the courier works. helvetica consistently puts a weird space, anywhere there is the letter 'i' or 'I' | 10:17.43 |
| chrisl | So, the Postscript selects Helvetica, but it's used the metrics from Courier for the glyph spacing. That's kind of bad | 10:19.27 |
| Brenkuu | Where is that issue caused? | 10:19.47 |
| chrisl | It's whatever generated the Postscript | 10:20.07 |
| Brenkuu | It's so weird that when we use the nimbus (courier) everything looks like it should. It's just.. we don't use courier. | 10:20.11 |
| | hmm, ok. | 10:20.20 |
| chrisl | Again, I'm very much guessing | 10:21.29 |
| | But Courier's "I" is considerably wider than Helvetica's | 10:22.27 |
| Brenkuu | Any reasoning why if I use other similar fonts, only like 1 of the letters in the word shows up? | 10:36.43 |
| | This behaviour is so weird | 10:36.51 |
| chrisl | Differents encodings, probably | 10:37.34 |
| Brenkuu | Ok, I have had my fill for the day. I hope you gentlemen have a nice afternoon/evening :) | 12:24.21 |
| | take care | 12:24.23 |
| EvanProhaska | Good morning! I am writing a Powershell script to perform an unattended uninstall and install of latest version of GhostScript but I am having trouble finding if there are any kind of switches available for the installed and uninstaller. I can build the registry information into the script but I want to verify that I can just reverse engineer that by removing the registry entry and deleting the files. | 16:38.28 |
| chrisl | The installer is based on nsis, so supports the normal nsis options | 16:41.03 |
| EvanProhaska | ahh perfect. Thanks! That makes it a lot easier! | 16:44.55 |
| furras | hi guys, anybody have a example of a command line to converte jpg into eps | 18:06.09 |
| | i try this "gs-926-linux-x86 -sDEVICE=eps2write -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sOutputFile=xxx.eps xxx.jpg" | 18:06.53 |
| | but returns a error | 18:07.22 |
| | "Error: /undefined in ÿØÿá*Exif" | 18:08.14 |
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