NAME

       PS_findfont — Loads a font

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pslib.h>

       int PS_findfont(PSDoc *psdoc, const char *fontname, const char *encoding, int embed)

DESCRIPTION

       Loads  a  font for later use. Before text is output with a loaded font it must be set with PS_setfont(3).
       This function needs the adobe font metric file in order to calculate the space used up by the characters.
       A font which is loaded within a page will only be available on that page. Fonts which are to be  used  in
       the  complete document has to be loaded before the first call of PS_begin_page(3). Calling PS_findfont(3)
       between pages will make that font available for all following pages.

       PS_findfont will try to load the file passed in the parameter encoding. Encoding files are  of  the  same
       syntax  as  those  used by dvips(1). They contain a font encoding vector (which is currently not used but
       must be present) and a list of extra ligatures to extend the list of ligatures derived from the afm file.

       encoding can be NULL or the empty string if the default encoding (TeXBase1) schall be used.

       If the encoding is set to `builtin' then there will be no reencoding and the font specific encoding  will
       be used. This is very useful with symbol fonts.

       All  files  will  first  be  searched  in  the  current  directory and than in the directories set by the
       parameter `SearchPath`.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns the identifier of the font or zero in case of an error.  The identifier is a positiv number.

SEE ALSO

       PS_setfont(3), PS_begin_page(3)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann <uwe@steinmann.cx>.

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