Hello all,
Does anyone know how I can add new fonts to GRASS? I want to be able to use
sans serif fronts like Arial for text I'm using in ps.map.
If this is possible, where on my system do the fonts have to reside, and how
does one tell GRASS where they are?
Thanks,
~ Eric.
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Eric Patton
Technologist, Geo-Spatial Data Services
Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic)
Natural Resources Canada
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada B2Y 4A2
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Patton, Eric wrote:
Does anyone know how I can add new fonts to GRASS? I want to be able to use
sans serif fronts like Arial for text I'm using in ps.map.
The PostScript files generated by ps.map don't include font
definitions; the fonts need to exist within the PostScript interpreter
(e.g. Ghostscript or your printer).
Refer to the documentation for Ghostscript or the printer for
information on adding fonts.
If you just want to use a sans-serif font, but don't care which one,
use "Helvetica", as that's present in all PostScript implementations
More generally, you can rely upon the presence of the following fonts
in any PostScript implementation:
Times-Roman
Times-Italic
Times-Bold
Times-BoldItalic
Helvetica
Helvetica-Oblique
Helvetica-Bold
Helvetica-BoldOblique
Courier
Courier-Oblique
Courier-Bold
Courier-BoldOblique
Symbol
[However, ps.map can only handle ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) text, so you
can't use Symbol.]
Anything else needs to be added to the printer (etc) via
implementation-specific means.
Or you may be able to obtain a utility to convert TrueType fonts to
PostScript fonts and embed them into the PostScript file (but check
the licensing information for the fonts if you plan to distribute the
PostScript file).
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>