NAME

download - host resident PostScript font downloader

SYNOPSIS

download [options] [files]

DESCRIPTION

download prepends host resident fonts to files and writes the results on the standard output. If no files are specified, or if - is one of the input files, the standard input is read. download assumes the input files make up a single PostScript job and that requested fonts can be included at the start of each input file. The following options are understood:

-f Force a complete scan of each input file. In the absence of an explicit comment pointing download to the end of the file, the default scan stops immediately after the PostScript header comments.

-p printer

          Check  the  list  of  printer-resident  fonts   in
          /etc/lp/printers/printer/residentfonts      before
          downloading.

-m name Use name as the font map table. A name that begins with / is the full pathname of the map table and is used as is. Otherwise name is appended to the pathname of the host font directory.

-H dir Use dir as the host font directory. The default is /usr/lib/lp/postscript.

Requested fonts are named in a comment (marked with %%DocumentFonts:) in the input files. Available fonts are the ones listed in the map table selected using the -m option.

The map table consists of fontname-filename pairs. The fontname is the full name of the PostScript font, exactly as it would appear in a %%DocumentFonts: comment. The filename is the pathname of the host resident font. A filename that begins with a / is used as is. Otherwise the pathname is relative to the host font directory. Comments are introduced by % (as in PostScript) and extend to the end of the line.

The only candidates for downloading are fonts listed in the map table that point download to readable files. A font is downloaded once, at most. Requests for unlisted fonts or inaccessible files are ignored. All requests are ignored if the map table can't be read.

EXAMPLES

The following map table could be used to control the downloading of the Bookman font family:

  %
  % The first string is the full PostScript font name. The second string
  % is the file name - relative to the host font directory unless it begins
  % with a /.
  %

    Bookman-Light            bookman/light
    Bookman-LightItalic      bookman/lightitalic
    Bookman-Demi             bookman/demi
    Bookman-DemiItalic       bookman/demiitalic

Using the file  myprinter/map  (in  the  default  host  font
directory)  as  the  map  table, you could download fonts by
issuing the following command:

     download -m myprinter/map file

DIAGNOSTICS

An exit status of 0 is returned if files were successfully processed.

NOTES

The download program should be part of a more general program.

download does not look for %%PageFonts: comments and there is no way to force multiple downloads of a particular font.

We do not recommend the use of full pathnames in either map tables or the names of map tables.

SEE ALSO

dpost(1), postdaisy(1),  postdmd(1),  postio(1),  postmd(1),
postprint(1),
posttek(1).