WPMathA etc. is from Correl Word Perfect and Correl allows you download those fonts (although I didn't find any license in the self-extracting zip archive). Don't fear the *.exe as it works just fine if you unzip it. The FILE name for the WP MathA font is Wphv06na.ttf and it doesn't get less gruesome.
Example:
sudo chown $USER /usr/local/share/fonts/
cd /usr/local/share/fonts/
wget http://www.corel.com/akdlm/6763/downloads/WordPerfect/wpwin/9/wpfonts.exe
unzip wpfonts.exe
sudo chown -R root /usr/local/share/fonts/
sudo fc-cache
The next hurdle is that the PDF has WPMathA
but the font cache has WP MathA
:
fc-list | grep local.*MathA
/usr/local/share/fonts/Wphv06na.ttf: WP MathA:style=Normal
fc-list -v | grep -c WPMathA
0
Your mission is to create the missing configuration files with the required aliases to tie WPMathA
to WP MathA
. After that you can relax by building an aircraft carrier out of toothpicks.
mkdir -p ~/.config/fontconfig/
echo '<?xml version="1.0"?>' > ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
xmlcopyeditor ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
insert:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf for per-user font configuration -->
<fontconfig>
<alias>
<family>WPMathA</family>
<prefer><family>WP MathA</family></prefer>
</alias>
</fontconfig>
Don't forget to rebuild the cache again. Didn't need root/sudo for me.
fc-cache
By this time acroread has stopped complaining about the missing WPMathA and the ghostscript bugzilla bug 687595 has a comment that fontconfig support was added in 8.60 but I guess they lied. If you still insist on creating a PDF with the embedded font even though the one you have should be working by now you can read ghostscript bugzilla bug 692001 which I will quote right here:
Comment 2 Ken Sharp 2011-02-28 11:44:42 PST
There are 2 ways to do this:
1) Locate a genuine CIDFont named Arial, place it in
gs/Resource/CIDFont and then tell Ghostscript to use disk files as
well as the built in file system. This is done with the -I command
line switch (eg -I/gs/Resource).
2) Use a TrueType font as a replacement. To do this you need to edit
gs/Resource/Init/cidfmap and add an entry for the font (Arial),
specifying the TrueType font to be used instead and some other
parameters. You must then also tell Ghostscritp [sic] to use the
specified file, again using the -I switch as above.
You can also use an existing CIDfont with a different name as a
replacement by specifying this in the cidfmap file.
Please refer to the documentation in :
/gs/doc/Use.htm
Look for "CID fonts" and "CID font substitution".
You will have to apt-get install ghostscript-doc
to get the file:///usr/share/doc/ghostscript-doc/Use.htm
Ken refers to.
The file to update is /var/lib/ghostscript/fonts/cidfmap
just add this line /WPMathA << /FileType /TrueType /Path (/usr/local/share/fonts/Wphv07na.ttf) /SubfontID 0 /CSI [(Identity) 0] >> ;
And run gs -o embedeed-font.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dEmbedAllFonts=true -I/usr/local/share/fonts/Wphv06na.ttf no-embedded-font.pdf
Please read file:///usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html
for background information. It will tell you to please see XDG Base Directory Specification for more details because there you will find the defaults for the $XDG... series of environment variables none of which are set to anything on 14.04 as far as ps axwwe
shows.