Re: Missing links to the URW+ fonts in 8.64's fontmap

[Didier Link]

Le Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:03:00 +0200,
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) a écrit :

> Hello,
> 
> With GNU Ghostscript 8.64, I noticed the following:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ gs user.ps
> GNU Ghostscript 8.64 (2009-02-03)
> Copyright (C) 2009 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Can't find (or can't open) font file
> %rom%Resource/Font/URWPalladioL-Roma. Can't find (or can't open) font
> file URWPalladioL-Roma. Can't find (or can't open) font file
> %rom%Resource/Font/URWPalladioL-Roma. Can't find (or can't open) font
> file URWPalladioL-Roma. Querying operating system for font files...
> Can't find (or can't open) font file
> %rom%Resource/Font/URWPalladioL-Roma. Can't find (or can't open) font
> file URWPalladioL-Roma. Didn't find this font on the system!
> Substituting font Courier for URWPalladioL-Roma.
> Can't find (or can't open) font file
> %rom%Resource/Font/NimbusMonL-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font
> file NimbusMonL-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file
> %rom%Resource/Font/NimbusMonL-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font
> file NimbusMonL-Regu. [...]
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> The problem stems from the fact that links to the URW+ PFB files
> disappeared from `Fontmap.GS' sometime between 8.62 and 8.64.
> 
> I solved it in the NixOS distribution with this patch:
> 
>   
> <URL:https://svn.nixos.org/websvn/nix/?op=comp&address@hidden&address@hidden>
> 
> Do you confirm that this is the right approach?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo'.
> 

Hi Ludo,

I have just received your e-mail, I don't understand yet why I've not
find them in the mailing-list administration interface. Anyway, I can
answer now ;)

This is not a bug, I quote the Changelog :

2008-08-12 23:44:53.919723 Ray Johnston
        Remove 'Actual Fonts' references in the Fontmap that connected
        the URW FontName to an 8.3 filename that we no longer use.
        [Resource/Init/Fontmap.GS]

On my Gentoo system gs-fonts-std-8.11 is installed with gs and the
interpreter search the fonts in the system fonts after the
ghostscript's Resources. Maybe the problem was on this
step for NixOS ? Can you send the output of 'gs --help' for looking at
the Search path configured for your version ?

Artifex has incorporated the URW fonts directly in the Resources loaded
in memory by gs, I've not included this fonts because I don't want to
have more included package in the executable than necessary.

Any comments about this option ?

Thanks.

Didier Link


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