[Wvware-devel] commit: libwmf2: GS fontmap - State of affairs

[F J F. <F.J...@sh...>]

The ghostscript fontmap parser is lifted from a parser I wrote for
something else so it's not all it could be, but seems to work.

ghostscript's fontmap gives us a list of pairs, each pair consisting
either of

(a) a postscript font name to font file mapping; or
(b) a postscript font name to alternative postscript font name.

Which is all very well, but the principal problem now becomes: how to
match the WMF font name to the postscript font name?

e.g., the first stage (the second is now trivial) in:

WMF font name: "Times New Roman" (Bold & Italic)
Best PS match: /Times-BoldItalic
-> GS Fontmap: /NimbusRomNo9L-MediItal

and this is a *simple* example...

o new wmf_bool_t enumeration type
o new WMF_ERROR_STATE() macro, returns library error state
o new wmf_str_append() function
o ghostscript font dir configure option
o configure ghostscript defaults are now DeFoMa-sensitive
o added ghostscript fontmap parser (incomplete)

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Regards, Frank

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