Anybody know of a freeware or way to do this?

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John Corliss wrote:

> Anybody know of a freeware or way to do this?

Guess not.

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On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:43:57 -0700, John Corliss wrote:

> Anybody know of a freeware or way to do this?

These are Adobe Type 1 fonts. So you could view them with Adobe Type
Manager Light (ATM Light). This is freeware (registerware) by Adobe.
With Google you should find enough direct downloads, too.

BeAr
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B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson wrote:
> John Corliss wrote:
>
>> Anybody know of a freeware or way to do this?
>
> These are Adobe Type 1 fonts. So you could view them with Adobe Type
> Manager Light (ATM Light). This is freeware (registerware) by Adobe.
> With Google you should find enough direct downloads, too.

Sorry BeAr, I should have mentioned that I tried that and it didn't
work. Was unable to preview anything. And after doing that when I
tried to print a WordPerfect (6.1) document to a .PDF file, it locked
up the printer module. Luckily, I'd set a system restore point. I
uninstalled the ATM Lite and restored the computer, then was able to
print the document to .PDF. By the way, the link I found was directly
to an Adobe server and no registration was required to get the
program. However, I've lost the link at this point.
Still, the problem is that when I used a particular font (a
handwriting style one) and then printed it to .PDF, the document came
out in a totally unrelated font. Guess maybe I should look to see if
there are any more Ghostscript fonts out there.

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John Corliss wrote:
> B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson wrote:
> > John Corliss wrote:
> >
> >> Anybody know of a freeware or way to do this?
> >
> > These are Adobe Type 1 fonts. So you could view them with Adobe Type
> > Manager Light (ATM Light). This is freeware (registerware) by Adobe.
> > With Google you should find enough direct downloads, too.
>
> Sorry BeAr, I should have mentioned that I tried that and it didn't
> work. Was unable to preview anything. And after doing that when I
> tried to print a WordPerfect (6.1) document to a .PDF file, it locked
> up the printer module. Luckily, I'd set a system restore point. I
> uninstalled the ATM Lite and restored the computer, then was able to
> print the document to .PDF. By the way, the link I found was directly
> to an Adobe server and no registration was required to get the
> program. However, I've lost the link at this point.
> Still, the problem is that when I used a particular font (a
> handwriting style one) and then printed it to .PDF, the document came
> out in a totally unrelated font. Guess maybe I should look to see if
> there are any more Ghostscript fonts out there.


My suggestion is to try to *embed TrueType font* directly to PDF file,
rather than use font substitution and then embed matching Type 1
(PostScript) font to PDF file. Embedding TrueType fonts should be
possible with the most recent Ghostscript versions. But used Post-
Script printer driver also affects the results, so driver settings
should be also correct, when creating the intermediate PostScript
file.

This should help:
http://www.geocities.com/mobrien_12/pdfwin.htm

Also, some other information:
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~rejc2/pdf/
http://www.geocities.com/mobrien_12/pdfwin.htm


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Sauli Suikkanen wrote:
> John Corliss wrote:
>>B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson wrote:
>>>John Corliss wrote:
>>>
>>>>Anybody know of a freeware or way to do this?
>>>
>>>These are Adobe Type 1 fonts. So you could view them with Adobe Type
>>>Manager Light (ATM Light). This is freeware (registerware) by Adobe.
>>>With Google you should find enough direct downloads, too.
>>
>>Sorry BeAr, I should have mentioned that I tried that and it didn't
>>work. Was unable to preview anything. And after doing that when I
>>tried to print a WordPerfect (6.1) document to a .PDF file, it locked
>>up the printer module. Luckily, I'd set a system restore point. I
>>uninstalled the ATM Lite and restored the computer, then was able to
>>print the document to .PDF. By the way, the link I found was directly
>>to an Adobe server and no registration was required to get the
>>program. However, I've lost the link at this point.
>> Still, the problem is that when I used a particular font (a
>>handwriting style one) and then printed it to .PDF, the document came
>>out in a totally unrelated font. Guess maybe I should look to see if
>>there are any more Ghostscript fonts out there.
>
> My suggestion is to try to *embed TrueType font* directly to PDF file,
> rather than use font substitution and then embed matching Type 1
> (PostScript) font to PDF file. Embedding TrueType fonts should be
> possible with the most recent Ghostscript versions. But used Post-
> Script printer driver also affects the results, so driver settings
> should be also correct, when creating the intermediate PostScript
> file.
>
> This should help:
> http://www.geocities.com/mobrien_12/pdfwin.htm
>
> Also, some other information:
> http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~rejc2/pdf/
> http://www.geocities.com/mobrien_12/pdfwin.htm

Sauli,
Thanks for the links! I'm on my way....
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On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:10:16 +0300, Sauli Suikkanen
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>My suggestion is to try to *embed TrueType font* directly to PDF file,
>rather than use font substitution and then embed matching Type 1
>(PostScript) font to PDF file.

You might also find this useful http://ttf2pt1.sourceforge.net/ .
This program allows you to convert your windows fonts so they can be
used in ghostscript. Otherwise what happens is the windows program
uses one font and ghostscript a substitution since it ghostscript does
not use ttf. This way they both will use the same. BTW you have to
edit Fontmap.GS too.

I have program on my site called fixes on the pspice tips page that
explains what to do since this is a problem I had on the wmf printer I
have in the tips. Printing to wmf used to mess up the fonts since it
would go font A to font B to font C when going from windows to
ghostscript to windows, :-(. Now it stays at font A :-).


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On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 15:47:54 -0700, John Corliss wrote:

> Sorry BeAr, I should have mentioned that I tried that and it didn't
> work. Was unable to preview anything. And after doing that when I
> tried to print a WordPerfect (6.1) document to a .PDF file, it locked
> up the printer module. Luckily, I'd set a system restore point. I
> uninstalled the ATM Lite and restored the computer, then was able to
> print the document to .PDF.

You seem most unfortunate. :-( Everything works fine here. I don't use
WordPerfect, though. That's why I can't say anything about possible
conflicts between WP and GS.

One thing to keep in mind is: There have been lots of incompatibilities
between MS Win and ATM(light) before. I remember a font cache overflow. -
You had to delete some PostScript (/GhostScript) fonts to solve this
problem. Another error was caused by the loading order of font drivers.
(Solved somewhere within the latest Service Packs for Win2k / WinXP.)

So maybe you want to check if you had the *latest* ATMlight installed
and all ServicePacks and fixes for your OS.

But according your previous experiences you most possibly won't test
ATMlight further. I most possibly wouldn't want to either after your
experiences... :-(

> Still, the problem is that when I used a particular font (a
> handwriting style one) and then printed it to .PDF, the document came
> out in a totally unrelated font. Guess maybe I should look to see if
> there are any more Ghostscript fonts out there.

Hm. If this isn't a font from the standard GS package, the reason you
ran into problems could be a missing entry within the font substitution
table, which is part of ATMlight. Another cause could be a missing entry
within the GS fontmap (as Malcolm already pointed out) or a wrong font
path given to Redmon (or which redirector you possibly use.)

Sorry, that I couldn't be of more help. Good luck when looking for
a solution!

BeAr
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Malcolm Reeves wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:10:16 +0300, Sauli Suikkanen
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>
>>My suggestion is to try to *embed TrueType font* directly to PDF file,
>>rather than use font substitution and then embed matching Type 1
>>(PostScript) font to PDF file.
>
>
> You might also find this useful http://ttf2pt1.sourceforge.net/ .
> This program allows you to convert your windows fonts so they can be
> used in ghostscript. Otherwise what happens is the windows program
> uses one font and ghostscript a substitution since it ghostscript does
> not use ttf. This way they both will use the same. BTW you have to
> edit Fontmap.GS too.
>
> I have program on my site called fixes on the pspice tips page that
> explains what to do since this is a problem I had on the wmf printer I
> have in the tips. Printing to wmf used to mess up the fonts since it
> would go font A to font B to font C when going from windows to
> ghostscript to windows, :-(. Now it stays at font A :-).

Thanks Malcolm. I've downloaded it and will check it out later. At
this point, I managed to get my project done with slightly less
satisfactory results, but done nonetheless.

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