type1 fonts

Dear lazyweb,

I'm a complete font n00b. How does one install Type1 fonts as part of a Debian package in such a way that:

  • The package is policy-compliant
  • Ghostscript will find the fonts
  • The fonts really live in /usr/share/pmw/psfonts/

PMW, which I'm packaging for Debian, includes Type1 postscript fonts that it absolutely cannot live without; and while it's possible to create a .ps file from pmw that includes those fonts, by default it does not, so it's generally useful to put those fonts somewhere that ghostscript can find them. Only I know squat about how ghostscript finds fonts, and just adding a symlink /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/pmw -> ../../../pmw/psfonts (as was suggested to me on IRC) does not seem to do the trick.

Thanks,

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just over three years, but I've finally gotten it to work. More or less.

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Looks like you'll be able to install wheezy on a system without hard disk. How's that for 'Universal operating system'?

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