Re: [bug #59933] Curly brackets displayed correctly in ps, but not in pdf

[Oliver Corff]

Hi Deri and Branden,

I absolutely appreciate your dedication to these issues, and thank you
also for the detailed explanations.

The notion that groff itself is totally unaware of what happens inside a
font is transparent to me, as I think I understand the concept of a font
description file because the tfm files in TeX are similar: they contain
metrics and perhaps ligatures, but nothing else.

I do struggle now and then with the cryptic names, though, but this is
not a totally foreign experience, I assume.

Of course, I am also aware of Peter Shaffter's font installation script
but somehow I failed to achieve the desired results at the first
attempt, and then gave up because the existing fonts basically covered
what I need.

I had intended to check the installation today, tonight some urgent work
hit my desk, I'll reply on Saturday.

Thank you, best regards,

Oliver.


On 01/06/2022 19:21, Deri James wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #4, bug #59933 (project groff):
>
> On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 13:25:51 BST Oliver wrote:
> > Hi Branden,
> >
> > thank you for the update!
> >
> > I checked, there is no directory type1/ under /usr/share/fonts.
> >
> > Then, I did a "locate a0100" and found the fonts in
> > /usr/share/X11/fonts/urw-fonts/.
> >
> > Groff will probably not have these in the standard search path.
> >
> > I'll experiment with setting a symbolic link from /usr/share/fonts and
> > let you know tonight.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Oliver.
> The problem is not that groff can't find the fonts since we can view the
> ESB.pdf with the braces fine. Since the fonts are not embedded in the pdf,
> because the fonts used are included in the pdf base fonts, the problem is with
> the actual pdf viewer.
>
> In comment #1 I suggested producing the pdf with the fonts embedded, but I
> have not heard whether that was successful. Just in case I have attached a pdf
> with the relevent fonts embedded. It would be interesting to find out whether
> the viewer will show the braces correctly.
>
>
> (file #53264)
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