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Adding Fonts to enscript

Kenneth H. East [view page source]

Installing new fonts for use with enscript on OS-X

We'll store the new fonts in a personal directory, e.g., ~/.fonts.

For TTF Fonts

  1. Find one or more ttf fonts you wish to install. Let's assume Consolas.ttf. Copy the file to ~/.fonts.

  2. Convert the ttf to afm:

    $ cd ~/.fonts

# Can't seem to stack flags with ttf2pt1.
# Do them one at a time.
$ ttf2pt1 -e Consolas.ttf
$ ttf2pt1 -a Consolas.ttf
$ ttf2pt1 -b Consolas.ttf

# Confirm the ttf was converted
$ ls -1
Consolas.afm
Consolas.pfa
Consolas.pfb
Consolas.t1a
Consolas.ttf

  1. Create a font.map for your fonts directory. Obviously, you can have multiple fonts in there, but this example just has Consolas.

    $ mkafmmap *.afm

  2. Edit your .enscriptrc to include your fonts directory in the AFMPath. Mine ended up looking like this:

    AFMPath: /opt/local/share/enscript/afm:/usr/local/lib/ps:/usr/lib/ps:/Users/khe/.fonts

    The extra path information in AFMPath was taken from /opt/local/etc/enscript.cfg.