Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (39 mails)

[Togan Muftuoglu <toganm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Mike FABIAN; <mfabian@xxxxxxx> on 19 Jan, 2003 wrote:
> fonts also cover iso8859-2 and iso8859-15 and therefore added these
> entries.  ago.  I didn't check whether they completely contain the
> glyphs necessary for Turkish. Sorry for beeing too lazy ...

I wanted to make sure I understood it coorectly. 

> I'll extend the /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts script to generate
> the /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/fonts.{scale,dir} files automatically
> using 'mkfontscale' for SuSE Linux >= 8.2.

Great, so it'll work out of the box :-)

> But there are still a few exotic applications where ttf2pt1 is needed.
> For example CJK-LaTeX cannot use TrueType fonts directly, it needs
> either .pk fonts or .pfb fonts generated from the TrueType fonts.
> '/usr/sbin/cjk-latex-config --type' generates .pfb fonts for use with
> CJK-LaTeX using ttf2pt1.

For LaTeX I save my questions, probably I'll send it under a new
subject. First I want to get Ghostscript behave with full support of its
capabilities


Many thanks for the valuable information

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Togan Muftuoglu
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