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From: adam <adam@du.edu> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 12:14:51 -0600 Subject: Re: PPR: (Don't Know Much About) Fonts Hey David, Thank you for your reply. The file fontindex.db doesn't seem to have any entries: # ls -l /var/spool/ppr/fontindex.db - -rw-r--r-- 1 ppr ppr 57 Apr 5 11:51 /var/spool/ppr/fontindex.db # more /var/spool/ppr/fontindex.db # This file format is a temporary hack. It will change. # However, when I execute ppr-indexfonts, this is what happens: # /usr/ppr/bin/ppr-indexfonts /usr/ppr/fonts # Should there be *.afm and *.pfm files in the directory /usr/ppr/fonts? I hope to not confiuse things, but I searched around with the intention of figuring out whether things were in their proper places. Here's what I know and maybe you can tell me if I should move things around so the script will work (I don't know C very well, so /local/ppr-1.40/fontutils/ppr-indexfonts.c is somewhat beyond me.). # pwd /usr/ppr/fonts # ls -l total 0 # # pwd /usr/ppr/cache/font # ls -la total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 ppr ppr 8192 Nov 29 15:41 . drwxr-xr-x 6 ppr ppr 8192 Nov 29 15:41 .. # # pwd /local/ppr-1.40/vendors/font_ibm # ls -la total 637 drwxr-xr-x 2 509 500 8192 Dec 25 1999 . drwxr-xr-x 14 509 500 8192 Jan 31 2000 .. - -rwxr-xr-x 1 509 500 514 Nov 23 1998 COPYRIGHT_IBM.txt - -rwxr-xr-x 1 509 500 29283 Jul 1 1999 IBMCourier-Bold.afm - -rwxr-xr-x 1 509 500 126903 Nov 16 1994 IBMCourier-Bold.pfa - -rwxr-xr-x 1 509 500 29447 Jul 1 1999 IBMCourier-BoldItalic.afm - -rwxr-xr-x 1 509 500 125236 Nov 16 1994 IBMCourier-BoldItalic.pfa - -rwxr-xr-x 1 509 500 29500 Jul 1 1999 IBMCourier-Italic.afm - -rwxr-xr-x 1 509 500 122159 Nov 16 1994 IBMCourier-Italic.pfa - -rwxr-xr-x 1 509 500 29355 Jul 1 1999 IBMCourier.afm - -rwxr-xr-x 1 509 500 126099 Nov 16 1994 IBMCourier.pfa # I appreciate your help, David. - -adam University of Denver David Chappell wrote: > adam wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > I am getting some printout jobs saying that the printer is not > > supporting the font > > IBMCourier causing some of those jobs to be incorrect. > > > > I am guessing I need to install the IBMCourier font in the fonts > > directory (/usr/ppr/fonts)? This directory is curiously empty, so maybe > > I am mistaken about this. Does anyone know of a good resource for > > obtaining/installing fonts? > > > > Thank You, > > > > -adam > > University of Denver > > Some of the PPR filters use IBM Courier. You already have it. It is in > /usr/share/ppr/fonts/. PPR is supposed to automatically download it to > the printer when needed. > > Make sure that it is listed in /var/spool/ppr/fontindex.db. If it > isn't, rerun ~ppr/bin/ppr-fontindex. If it is, send me an example file > which demonstrates the problem and I will look for a bug in PPR.