I do not understand how fonts are selected to display Ghostscript output under Linux. I have two Linux machines with Ghostscript 8.71. Only one has urwfonts-1.41 installed in /usr/share/fonts/. If I run this code on the machines %! /Times-Roman findfont 20 scalefont setfont 100 100 moveto (\256) show showpage they display a different character. The machine with the URW fonts gives this behaviour: $ gs GPL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10) Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. GS>/Times-Roman findfont 20 scalefont setfont 100 100 moveto (\256) show showpage Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.71/Resource/Font/NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.71/Resource/Font/NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. Querying operating system for font files... Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/urwfonts-1.41/NimbusRomNo9L-Regu.ttf... 3540056 1805029 5486792 4140273 1 done. and uses ISOLatin1Encoding by default and draws the registered symnbol, whereas the machine without the URW font uses StandardEncoding and displays the fi ligature and gives this response: $ gs GPL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10) Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. GS>/Times-Roman findfont 20 scalefont setfont 100 100 moveto (\256) show showpage Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.71/Resource/Font/NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.71/Resource/Font/NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. Querying operating system for font files... Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb... 2635160 1145514 3342416 1659459 1 done. Printing from both machines uses the StandardEncoding and is identical. So the question is, what do I need to do to get ghostscript to take the default font instead of the URW TTF version?
Please see doc/Use.htm#Font_lookup In particular, the alias mapping from Times-Roman to an actual fontname and the mapping from the fontname to a file is performed by the contents of Fontmap. Another complication depends on how ghostscript was configured when it was built. Usually on linux, by default, Ghostscript uses the 'fontconfig' to "help" find fonts. To build without fontconfig use: configure --disable-fontconfig ; make Since this isn't a real bug, and since this is not the forum for help, I am closing this bug.