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phabulosa

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From: Mountain View, CA

Registered: 2007-10-17

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type1inst? Which package has it?

I am looking for a utility called type1inst.

Which package may have it?

Or, let me address in another way: what command I should use to find out which package (from remote repo) has a certain file.

Thanks

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

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Re: type1inst? Which package has it?

Hello phabulosa,

type1inst is nowhere to be found in ArchLand.  You can get it from Debian (amongst other places): http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/ma … rig.tar.gz .  Just extract that tar.gz, and use the type1inst script directly.  It's a perl program, and it lists groff and perl as it's only dependencies.

PS: It's really ancient.  Are you sure it is still relevant?

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

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Re: type1inst? Which package has it?

pacman -Ss firefox shows this:

community/arch-firefox-search 0.5-1
    Firefox Arch search engines (AUR, Pkgs, BBS, Wiki, etc.)

It adds those to your search bar.

Also, the german arch site has a nice file search feature (Datei = file): 
http://www.archlinux.de/?page=Packages.

phabulosa

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From: Mountain View, CA

Registered: 2007-10-17

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Re: type1inst? Which package has it?

Hello phabulosa,

type1inst is nowhere to be found in ArchLand.  You can get it from Debian (amongst other places): http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/ma … rig.tar.gz .  Just extract that tar.gz, and use the type1inst script directly.  It's a perl program, and it lists groff and perl as it's only dependencies.

PS: It's really ancient.  Are you sure it is still relevant?

I want to install some of my own fonts to ghostscript.

BTW, do you know any other tool can do that besides type1inst to create Fontmap

Any good tutorial I can read?

Thanks

farvardin

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Registered: 2008-09-03

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Re: type1inst? Which package has it?

I'd be interested to know too, I've tried to use type1inst like on Debian, but even if I could generate the correct fontmap (which was already in my .fonts folder along with my fonts), I can't display them with ghostscript.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: type1inst? Which package has it?

Look into Fontforge. On their website they a bunch of tutorials, some for the command line. It looks like t1reencode from texlive-bin may be able to do it too.

Last edited by skottish (2008-10-01 15:57:32)

farvardin

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Re: type1inst? Which package has it?

ok, I think I found it out:
The fontmap generated from type1inst should be copied at the end of /usr/share/ghostscript/8.63/lib/Fontmap.GS
And the new fonts must be copied to /usr/share/fonts/Type1/

Last edited by farvardin (2008-11-13 10:59:09)