The project is to extract Adobe Illustrator .ai encapsulated PDF files and extract images from them. The details of the application are a layer or two above me, but my understanding is that the purpose is to save the art designers using Illustrator a few steps by automating things they would otherwise have to do themselves. Postscript is integral to the production process all the way down; that is why gs was chosen. Thanks for the response and the reference; I did not know about Cairo. Unfortunately in this case it isn’t of use, given the larger process into which it must fit. -- Michael > On Oct 31, 2021, at 16:00, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:46:29 -0500, Michael Brennen wrote: > >> So the font matching problem is somewhere in gs, not fontconfig. >> Thanks for the responses; I hope knowing that gs’s use of fontconfig >> is limited comes in useful. > > Just wondering, is it essential that you render PostScript has part of > your pipeline? If not, there are other options for generating graphic > images, with more direct control over what fonts are used. Like > something based on Cairo <https://www.cairographics.org/>.
