PostGhost Fonts (and the Euro)

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Correo Fenda  on Fri, 26 Aug
2005 19:58:54 +0200

Manuel -- and anyone else who's interested:

Here are the fonts that PostGhost (POSTGHST.PRN)
handles (this is all from the newest version, which
I'm still tinkering with -- the names in CAPS are the
names of the fonts in POSTGHST.PRN):

Every PostScript printer ever made (or since 1987
or thereabouts) includes a "standard 35" fonts:
	four weights (regular, bold, italic, bold-italic) each of
		*COURIER
		*HELVETICA (traditional Xy nomenclature=SWISS)
		*TIMES (traditional Xy nomenclature=DUTCH)
	one weight of
		 SYMBOL (_not_ handled by POSTGHST.PRN)
The above represent the "standard 13" from the
very first generation of PS printers.
	four weights each of
		*AVANTGARDE
		*BOOKMAN
		*HELVETICA-NARROW
		*NEWCENTURYSCHLBK (New Century Schoolbook)
		*PALATINO
	one weight each of
		*ZAPFCHANCERY (Zapf Chancery Medium Italic)
		 ZAPFDINGBATS (_not_ handled by POSTGHST.PRN)

The fonts distributed with Ghostscript are EXACT imitations
of the 35 fonts listed above, right down to widths.

Additionally, Ghostscript is distributed with:
	four weights each of
		 CHARTER (Bitstream Charter)
		 UTOPIA
	one weight each of
		 ANTIQUA (Regular Condensed)
		 GROTESK (Bold)

The fonts listed above with ASTERISKS include the Euro
symbol, which POSTGHST.PRN assigns to character 176
(in accordance with earlier messages, and the scheme
of replicating, insofar as they overlap, the Speedo
charset under CodePage 850).

Comments on this are very welcome. Now is the time!
It is under development, and everything is subject to change.

A PDF of the Ghostscript fonts currently handled by
POSTGHST.PRN is attached.

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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