Re: [groff] <DKIM> Termux Android app and Groff

[Mikkel Meinike Nielsen]

Ah cool explanation. I think I am starting to get it :-) I could than also
try to print the dokument to image with gs later to day and see how the
fonts looks in that image. Thanks again. I will have a look at this.

//Mikkel

lør. 18. maj 2019 00.44 skrev Deri <address@hidden>:

> On Friday, 17 May 2019 23:05:17 BST Mikkel Meinike Nielsen wrote:
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> > Thanks for advice Deri
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> > So that should mean that viewing it in an other PDF viewer would show the
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> > right fonts??
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> > "One possibility is get groff to actually embed the used base fonts in
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> > postscript file it produces, by editing the "download" file with entries
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> > which point to the URW fonts which I believe you have."
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> > I actually don't understand this. Don't understand what to do
> practically.
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> > //Mikkel
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> Hi Mikkel,
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> Dale touched on installing fonts so that they can be embedded in the
> postscript file, and recommended the detailed instructions on Peter
> Schaffter's mom website. However, the first step would be try viewing the
> postscript file with a different viewer, which hopefully has these default
> fonts, or equivalent, available.
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> What groff calls "font files", i.e. the HR file you have in the devps
> directory, are not fonts in themselves, in the way a postscript font
> (usually .pfa or .pfb) contains all the information needed to render that
> font. The groff font files only hold sufficient information to typeset that
> font on the page. Rendering of the font requires drawing commands which are
> held in the postscript font, and not in the groff font.
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> As I said, the base fonts which are defined for postscript are expected to
> be accessible to any device/program which renders postscript files. Every
> postscript printer will have those fonts in a rom or occasionally a hard
> disk. Ghostscript is a program which can render postscript files and you
> will find that it comes with copies of the base postscript fonts within its
> Resources directory.
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> Perhaps you could transfer the postscript file generated within Termux to
> another system, and view the postscript on that system. If it looks Ok then
> you will know that the problem is with the postscript viewer you are using.
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