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authorRalph Giles <ralph.giles@artifex.com>2004-05-05 22:52:45 +0000
committerRalph Giles <ralph.giles@artifex.com>2004-05-05 22:52:45 +0000
commitb7728e0e81426470a3e27699b4774ee5aff671fc (patch)
treec3740af08bfc3a14e2be184b76865569ebab25a9 /gs/doc/Fonts.htm
parentd3a16c58ce960b67602d5ef3a3204ceb0bdb98fd (diff)
Document that we no longer support loading truetype CJK fonts directly from
/Resources/CIDFont as worked in 7.0x for Japanese fonts. This has been replaced by the more general, if less convenience, cidfmap mechanism. Closes bug 686949. git-svn-id: http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/trunk@4994 a1074d23-0009-0410-80fe-cf8c14f379e6
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</ul>
<p>
+Additionally, a file <tt><b>cidfmap</b></tt> can be used
+to create CID fonts for CJK font files on the system See
+the section on <a href="Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution">CID Font Substitution</a>
+for details.
+
+<p>
Most of the font files supplied with Ghostscript have the extension
<tt><b>.pfb</b></tt>, and a few have <tt><b>.pfa</b></tt> or
<tt><b>.gsf</b></tt>. Each file defines one ordinary PostScript Type 1