How to Add Fonts

EasyCopy Montage will use all scalable fonts installed on your system, so adding fonts for use in Montage is in fact a matter of adding more fonts to your system in general.

Fonts are normally copyrighted and (like other software) they must be licensed from the font vendor.
Freeware fonts are available for download from certain sites, but they are usually of poor quality, or in many cases illegal copies of copyright protected fonts, so be careful that you do not unintentionally contribute to software piracy!
The fonts distributed with Ghostscript are of good quality. Ghostscript is installed together with EasyCopy and used by EasyCopy. The Ghostscript fonts can legally be installed in your system and used with EasyCopy and other applications that use Ghostscript.

How to Add Fonts in Windows

You add fonts by opening the Control Panel.

Click on the Fonts icon to open the list of installed fonts.

Select Install New Font in the File menu:

Now you get an Add Fonts dialog.

Locate the new fonts you got from some source.

You can always install TrueType (.ttf) fonts on a Windows system.

On Windows 2000 and Windows XP you can also install Adobe Type 1 (.pfm) fonts.

To install Type 1 fonts on Windows NT and 98 you need additional software (Adobe Type Manager from Adobe Systems).

If you install Type 1 fonts you may get the problem that the installation is unsuccesful due to copyright issues.

How to Add Fonts in Linux

The available fonts in a Linux environment are delivered by the X-server. If you run EasyCopy from a remote location you have access to the fonts provided by your local X font server. The fonts are not delivered by the system to which you have logged in.

You can add fonts by means of the xset command.

You can always add Adobe Type 1 fonts (.pfb and associated .afm files). Some systems also let you add TrueType.

You may for example add the fonts provided by Ghostscript. All files required are prepared and ready in the Ghostscript fonts directory.

Type this line in a console or terminal window:

xset fp+ /usr/local/easycopy/gpl/gs/fonts

(assuming that you have installed EasyCopy in /usr/local/easycopy).

This will add the Ghostscript fonts to the font path. You need no special priveleges to do this, but the added font path will only last for the duration of your X Window session.

To add fonts permanently you must update the confguration of the X font server. The details may be system dependent, but the guide lines provided here will work on most systems.

The X font server's configuration file is normally located in /etc/X11/fs/config and normally you need root access to update this file. Make a backup copy of the configuration file. Locate the "catalogue=" entry, and add /usr/local/easycopy/gpl/gs/fonts to the comma-separated list.

You need to restart the font server to make the update effective. Use the kill command, and rely on the assumption that it will restart itself. If this does not happen you may have damaged the configuration file when you updated it. Review carefully your changes, correct any mistakes and try again. If necessary, fall back to your backup copy and restart the system.

To add fonts from other vendors you may need to setup or edit a fonts.dir and a fonts.scale file bvefore you add the fonts to the font server. Refer to your system documentation and/or documentation from the font vendor for further information.

Ghostscript Fonts

The fonts distributed with Ghostscript are installed together with EasyCopy for use with Ghostscript. They are not automatically installed for general use in the system.

The fonts are located as follows:

Windows: [easycopy]\gs\fonts
UNIX: [easycopy]/gpl/gs/fonts

(where [easycopy] means the directory in which EasyCopy is installed.

The fonts are metrically equivalent with the basic set of 35 PostScript fonts. They have other names, however, because the names of the original PostScript fonts are protected. The fonts are listed below (the number 35 relates to the fact that each style variation counts as one font in PostScript terms).

Font Name regular bold italic bolditalic PostScript Name

Century Schoolbook L x x x x New Century Schoolbook

Dingbats x ITC Zapf Dingbats

Nimbus Mono L x x x x Courier

Nimbus Roman No9 L x x x x Times Roman

Nimbus Sans L x x x x Helvetica

Nimbus Sans L Condensed x x x x Helvetica Narrow

Standard Symbols x Symbol

URW Bookman L x x x x Bookman

URW Chancery L x ITC Zapf Chancery

URW Gothic L x x x x Avant Garde

URW Palladio L x x x x Palatino

You can add this font to your X font server and have it available in Montage.

URW Gothic L

This font is part of Ghostscript. It is metrically equivalent to the Avant Garde font used in PostScript.

You can add this font to your X font server and have it available in Montage.

URW Palladio L

This font is part of Ghostscript. It is metrically equivalent to the Palatino font used in PostScript.

You can add this font to your X font server and have it available in Montage.

Font Name	regular	bold	italic	bolditalic	PostScript Name
Century Schoolbook L	x	x	x	x	New Century Schoolbook
Dingbats	x				ITC Zapf Dingbats
Nimbus Mono L	x	x	x	x	Courier
Nimbus Roman No9 L	x	x	x	x	Times Roman
Nimbus Sans L	x	x	x	x	Helvetica
Nimbus Sans L Condensed	x	x	x	x	Helvetica Narrow
Standard Symbols	x				Symbol
URW Bookman L	x	x	x	x	Bookman
URW Chancery L				x	ITC Zapf Chancery
URW Gothic L	x	x	x	x	Avant Garde
URW Palladio L	x	x	x	x	Palatino