                     Fonts

The minimum Atari Ghostscript distribution
contains only one font (Courier), which is
used as the default when the correct font
cannot be found.  Depending on which dist-
ribution you obtained, this font may be in a
disk file or it may be compiled into GS.  For
information on how to obtain the remainder of
the fonts, see the file "readme.st" in the
doc directory.  Before obtaining these fonts,
however, please read on.

One of Ghostscript's greatest deficiencies is
its font set.  There are few high-quality
public domain PostScript fonts, so most of
the GS font set consists of crude piecewise-
linear outlines of public domain bitmapped
fonts.  There are, however, a few quality
type-1 fonts in the distribution (see the
comments in the "fontmap" file), and using
these fonts when possible results in higher
quality output.  If you plan to use GS for
serious text output, you may consider buying
a commercial package of type-1 fonts.  A
fontmap file for the Adobe Type Manager font
set is available.

Some PS documents (like those created with
TeX and dvips) may not use PostScript fonts
at all.  Instead, bitmapped (TeX) fonts are
generally included in the PS file.  This can
produce reasonable output IF the resolution
of the printout is the same as that of the
bitmapped fonts.  Viewing 300 dpi TeX files
on the screen at 80 dpi, however, will
generally not be pleasant.
