Subject: Re: @I seems to do nothing to the AvantGarde font - msg#00020

Hi,

Sébastien Pierre <spierre@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Le 06-07-24 à 18:19, Daniel Ajoy a écrit :
>
>> @I seems to do nothing to the AvantGarde font
>
> It is possible that the font does not come with the italic variant
> (some fonts do not have bold or italic).

Here's what happens.

AvantGarde _does_ have an italic variant. Lout's `fontdefs.ld' defines
it like this:

{ @FontDef
@Tag { AvantGarde-Slope }
@Family { AvantGarde }
@Face { Slope }
@Name { AvantGarde-MediumObl }
@Metrics { AG-MdO }
@Mapping { LtLatin1.LCM }
}

However, I'm guessing that you're using a free OS which provides a free
(GPL'd) variant of Adobe's fonts made by URW++ [0,1].

Then, Ghostscript (which your viewer uses) defines a "font map" that
allows it to use the URW++ variants whenever a PS file refers to the
Adobe font names. On Debian (the `gs-gpl' package), this file is
located at /usr/share/gs-gpl/8.50/lib/Fontmap.GS. For AvantGarde, it
contains the following lines:

/AvantGarde-Book /URWGothicL-Book ;
/AvantGarde-BookOblique /URWGothicL-BookObli ;
/AvantGarde-Demi /URWGothicL-Demi ;
/AvantGarde-DemiOblique /URWGothicL-DemiObli ;

IOW, it doesn't mention any mapping for `AvantGarde-MediumObl' (which
you are interested in), which is why it doesn't display italics.

I don't know what this font should be mapped to, but you could add
something like this to your `Fontmap.GS' file:

/AvantGarde-MediumObl /URWGothicL-DemiObli ;

However, if you send your file to a standard PS printer, it should print
just fine.

Thanks,
Ludovic.

[0] http://urwpp.de
[1] http://goldfndr.home.mindspring.com/urw.html