Re: urg.

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> > * We can hack fontconfig support into Ghostscript 8.15, pray that all
> >   distros start shipping it and have GS load the fonts.
> > 
> >   A nice solution, but a logistic nightmare?  I suspect that this
> >   might be the easiest route technically, though.
> 
> I vote for that.  It has the additional advantage that you still have
> both PS and PDF output with a single backend in case you use GS.
> Regarding fontconfig I suggest you contact the GS people for
> assistance -- I can imagine that other people have similar needs, and
> maybe a proper solution already exists.

This would be a nice hack. It would also solve the huge amount of
diskspace necessary for building the web docs. Unfortunately, I don't
think we have enough clout to force an upgrade of GhostScript
everywhere within the next 2 months.  I think I'll take the route of
generating a T42 font instead.

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