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Re: PDF reader for Groff output
From: |
Deri |
Subject: |
Re: PDF reader for Groff output |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 16:01:24 +0100 |
On Monday, 11 July 2022 09:15:07 BST Damian McGuckin wrote:
> I think the issue is that the more recent packages have the Type 1 font
> as a t1.
Hi Damian,
The .t1 files are in fact postscript binary fonts, just not named .pfb. The
naming does not matter
and when groff is built it will look for this particular name variant.
> Rather than screwing around with legacy packages, what is the best way
> to go from t1 to pfb please because certainly groff wants .pfb.
I believe Branden has commented on this with regard to using grops for output,
i.e. you don't
need to do anything, because the default for postscript is that these fonts do
not need to be
embedded, it is required that the consumer of the postscript file, a printer or
distiller program,
will have access to the necessary fonts.
For pdf output only 19 of these fonts are "required" in the same way, so some
of the 35 fonts
must be embedded in the pdf, which means gropdf does need access to these
fonts, even if they
are named .t1.
> The question then, is where should we put them, not only for 'groff' but
> also 'okular' or 'evince' or anything else which wants them?
I suspect many pdf viewers are using fontconfig to locate the fonts they need.
If you look at the centos package urw-base35-nimbus-roman-fonts which is a
dependency of
urw-base35-fonts which you installed, it contains this file:-
/etc/fonts/conf.d/61-urw-nimbus-roman.conf
Which tells fontconfig information about the NimbusRoman fonts. So if you use
the centos
packages to install the fonts, any program which uses fontconfig to locate
fonts will be aware of
their presence. Gropdf nor grops use fontconfig to find fonts, which is why you
can use the --
with-urw-fonts-dir flag for configure.
Cheers
Deri
> Stay safe - Damian
- Re: PDF reader for Groff output, (continued)
- Re: PDF reader for Groff output, Damian McGuckin, 2022/07/09
- Re: PDF reader for Groff output, G. Branden Robinson, 2022/07/09
- Re: PDF reader for Groff output, Deri, 2022/07/09
- Re: PDF reader for Groff output, Damian McGuckin, 2022/07/09
- Re: PDF reader for Groff output, Damian McGuckin, 2022/07/10
- Re: PDF reader for Groff output, Damian McGuckin, 2022/07/11
- Re: PDF reader for Groff output, Damian McGuckin, 2022/07/11
- Re: PDF reader for Groff output, G. Branden Robinson, 2022/07/11
- Re: PDF reader for Groff output,
Deri <=