[OS X TeX] font2outline

[Gary L. Gray]

On Jan 12, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Maarten Sneep wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:22:52 -0500, Themis Matsoukas
> <matsoukas at engr.psu.edu> wrote:
>> Gary's script for converting latex fonts into outlines in Illustrator
>> gives the error (that's when used with TL 09/OS 10.6.2):
>> 
>> GPL Ghostricpipt 8.70: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1.
>> 
>> Is there a fix?
> 
> Is the input file alright and readable by ghostscript? If postscript, I
> believe that dropping it on TeXShop will use ghostscript to convert to pdf
> (and open the result). If that doesn't work, then the issue is not with gs
> or the font outliner.

I think Themis is trying to convert fonts in PDF files to Postscript outlines -- at least that is what our AppleScript app does.

-- Gary