Re: Ghostscript for Windows

In article <8256058b-a27e-4a9b-8537-
2980cfdb9afb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, mkimonos@xxxxxxxxx says...
On Nov 21, 12:14=A0pm, Philip A. Viton <vito...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <044e4cae-e8cd-4248-88c9-
bf9046cfb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, mkimo...@xxxxxxxxx
says...

I have instaled ghostscript and i am abale to convert pdf's to images,
but i get a message saying i don't have the right fonts installed, so
the images that it creats, the text is very crap.
I have No idea on how to install the fonts i need, i have read the
help documentation for it and it doesn't make sense to me. Can anyone
help?

Thanks,
MK

The official gs distribution comes with a large number of type-
1 fonts that get installed in the "fonts" folder of your main
gs installation. As I recall, in the installation procedure
you're asked whether you want to install them: did you decline
to do so? If so, try installing again.

--

Phil Viton
Ohio State University

Thanks for the quick response,
The build of the ghostscript is v8.63

The only font question it asked was to Use Windows truetype fonts for
chinese, japanese and korean, there was no other questions.
Here is a picture of the file structure it created:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67038364@N00/3047859621/





That's strange. At my office I have gs8.63 and fonts, but it's possible
that the fonts were installed with a previous GS edition, I don't
remember. At home I have gs8.53, which I'm pretty sure was a first-time
installation; and it has the fonts folder. So my suggestion would be to
install gs8.53, which should create the fonts folder; then re-install
8.63 (to get the paths right).

Alternatively: is it possible that gs installed the fonts folder
somewhere else? Try searching your hard drive for

a010013l.afm

which is one of the fonts installed (only) by GS. If you find it check
that the registry entry HKLM -> Software -> AFPL Ghostscript -> 8.63 ->
GS_LIB is correct: this is a series of folders making up gs's search
path; there should be an entry pointing to the location of the fonts.



--
Philip A. Viton
Ohio State University
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