Re: Fonts?

[Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>]

Hi Kristaps and Jason,

Kristaps Dzonsons wrote on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 03:38:55PM +0200:
> Jason McIntyre wrote:
>> Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>>> Kristaps wrote:

>>>> Enclosed is a fully proportional-width PostScript file using Charter
>>>> (as found in the aforementioned directory).  Quite nice, no?

>>> I fear something is seriously broken with those two files mandoc.1.ps
>>> and mdoc.7.ps.  When i fire up gv on a standard OpenBSD install,
>>> it does not display any text.

>> don;t know if it's related or not, but i eventually gave up on gv as
>> being too problematic, and now use xpdf. it's an ugly interface, but it
>> does seem to display pages that gv has issues with. so the problem might
>> be gv, not the ps files.

> Hmm.  I used gs(1) and they look fine on OpenBSD.  This is why I asked
> about fonts---I'm trying to find one that's distributed on all systems.

When whatever choice was made causes discussions,
i consider the choice probably too fancy.

Sorry i can't come up with constructive suggestions on how to proceed.
Is there a way to just say "use whatever is available"?  If so, that
might be a sane default.  If not, i don't know.  I'm willing to
naively look at whatever you plan on doing, but of course, it should
not just work on the system i happen to have right now, but it should
be reliable for everyone.

I don't know how, but i guess reliability can be achieved.  For example,
i have been using a2ps for nearly two decades, and i have often copied
the output around across various systems, and i can't remember ever
having had any issues displaying them on the screen or printing them
on whatever hardware.

By the way, when i run your files through pdf2ps and then back
through ps2pdf, i can look at them.  That approach increases the
size by a factor of four, but it looks like the PostScript can be
made more reliable.

Yours,
  Ingo
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