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I just discovered that although ghostscript (8.54 or 8.60) will read most 
pdf files without needing external fonts, if they are specified such as

/BaseFont /Helvetica-Bold

you need the .pfb fonts (in Slackware gsfonts.tgz along with unneeded .gsf 
.afm .pfm .pfa) or you can save 2.3MB by symlinking to the AbiSuite fonts.

ln -s /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts

xpdf uses the same fonts and works without an xpdfrc (unless you want to 
specify the use of other fonts to save space, since the .pfm versions are 
about 4K each instead of 40K .pfb, and look okay onscreen).

I thought of editing Fontmap.GS to use the smaller fonts but they would 
not print as legibly.  To save a lot of space, you could edit it and point 
all the aliases at one proportional and one monospaced font, both 
sans-serif, and even eliminate bold and italic.  I have more space than 
time now.

Neither gs (viewed with svp) nor xpdf was displaying any text or even the 
background images and lines from my phone bill (which were Helvetica) 
until I added this symlink.

I have recompiled ghostscript 8.54 to support only feature devices pdf and 
ps level 3 (not dpfnext ttfont epsf pipe fapi and jbig2) and not to 
include 'Resources', which I think is for Chinese and Japanese.  I 
configured without support for X ijs jasper but with jbig2dec support, 
which no longer works because I left out jbig2 as a feature device.
I am recompiling so don't download for an hour.

I also fixed the defaults version to work without init files now.

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/gs/gs854-noX-defaults.gz  3MB
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/gs/gs854-noX-HP.gz  down to 2.6MB

The default device is deskjet in both cases.

No support for X or svgalib, View with svp, which is based on gs and is 
much faster than xpdf.  The help file is incomplete and you need the 
README.svp.

Some basic docs and scripts (ps2pdf pdf2ps ps2ascii) are in:
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/gs/gs854-docs-scripts.gz


ftpput does not work for me at sdf.
ftpput -u login -p password ftp.freeshell.org ~keesan/html/bl README.svp

ftpput:  invalid number '220 vinland.freeshell.org FTP server (NetBSD-ftpd 
20050303) ready.'  Do I need to specify port with -P?  If so, how do I 
know what to specify?

I have been using kermit ftp or scp (dbclient) for file transfer.
I tried mini_httpd with wget or links, but they kept stopping in mid 
transfer and starting over again.  Even wget -c started over.

Sindi

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org