From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Debian-exim@smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.185.217]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o5UDtXQU028462 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:55:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hekate.usta.de (asta-nat.asta.uni-karlsruhe.de [172.22.63.82]) by smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtp (Exim 4.63 #1) id 1OTxlE-00028N-Ed; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:55:32 +0200 Received: from donnerwolke.usta.de ([172.24.96.3]) by hekate.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OTxlE-0002Vc-DX for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:55:32 +0200 Received: from iris.usta.de ([172.24.96.5] helo=usta.de) by donnerwolke.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OTxlE-0000OX-Cq for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:55:32 +0200 Received: from schwarze by usta.de with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OTxlE-0006x6-2L for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:55:32 +0200 Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:55:31 +0200 From: Ingo Schwarze To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: Fonts? Message-ID: <20100630135531.GC24358@iris.usta.de> References: <4C2B2760.7010504@bsd.lv> <3CFC79CF-AFDC-4F2A-A871-4D64F64B461B@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> <4C2B44D3.60603@bsd.lv> <20100630132526.GB24358@iris.usta.de> <20100630132735.GA17504@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> <4C2B48EF.9060302@bsd.lv> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C2B48EF.9060302@bsd.lv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv