Re: Type 1 fonts not downloading

[Deri]

On Monday, 21 August 2023 06:47:37 BST Phil Chadwick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just discovered that as of GNU grops (groff) version 1.23.0
> groff no longer downloads and encodes PostScript fonts into documents.
> 
> This is the method by which I create fully self-contained PostScript
> documents that can be viewed or printed anywhere (because all the fonts
> are encoded within the document).
> 
> The method by which this is done is to configure access to the PostScript
> fonts in the devps/download file by appending the font name and location
> (relative to the devps directory), e.g.
> 
>     [strand.178] $ uname -a
>     FreeBSD strand.my.dom 13.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p2 GENERIC
> amd64
> 
>     [strand.148] $ cd /usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devps
> 
>     [strand.149] $ cat download
>     # PostScript-name       Filename
>     # These three come standard with groff
>     Symbol-Slanted          symbolsl.pfa
>     ZapfDingbats-Reverse    zapfdr.pfa
>     FreeEuro                freeeuro.pfa
> 
>     Dot-Matrix      Type1Fonts/Dot-Matrix.ps
> 
> Thyere is also a font metrics file:
> 
>     [strand.150] $ head -10 Dot-Matrix
>     name Dot-Matrix
>     internalname Dot-Matrix
>     spacewidth 750
>     encoding text.enc
>     charset
>     ha  750,803 2       0000    asciicircum
>     ti  750,803 2       0001    asciitilde
> 
>     :Y  750,803,53      2       0006    Ydieresis
> 
>     tm  750,803,303     3       0007    trademark
>     aq  750,803 2       0010    quotesingle
> 
> And a Postscript font:
> 
>     [strand.158] $ file Type1Fonts/Dot-Matrix.ps
>     Type1Fonts/Dot-Matrix.ps: PostScript Type 1 font text (Dot-Matrix 1.000)
> 
> In the past a "\f[Dot-Matrix]" directive would cause groff to encode the
> Dot-Matrix.ps font file into the PostScript document it produced.
> 
>     [strand.487] $ cat e.nr
>     \f[Dot-Matrix]Hello world
> 
>     [strand.488] $ groff -Tps e.nr >e.ps
>     grops:<standard input>:(e.nr):20: error: failed to open PostScript
> resource 'Type1Fonts/Dot-Matrix.ps': No error: 0
> 
> That error message is new to groff version 1.23.0.
> 
> The font Dot-Matrix is not encoded into the output file:
> 
>     [strand.142] $ grep Dot-Matrix e.ps
>     %%DocumentNeededResources: font Dot-Matrix
>     %%IncludeResource: font Dot-Matrix
>     /Dot-Matrix@0 ENC0/Dot-Matrix RE
>     /F0 10/Dot-Matrix@0 SF(Hello)72 12 Q(world)7.5 E 0 Cg EP
> 
> With GNU grops (groff) version 1.22.4, I get what I want and expect:
> 
>     [sherman.134] $ grep Dot-Matrix e.ps
>     %%+ font Dot-Matrix
>     %%BeginResource: font Dot-Matrix
>     %!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: Dot-Matrix 1.000
>     FontDirectory/Dot-Matrix known{/Dot-Matrix findfont dup/UniqueID
> known{dup /FontName /Dot-Matrix def
>     /Dot-Matrix@0 ENC0/Dot-Matrix RE
>     /F0 10/Dot-Matrix@0 SF(Hello)72 12 Q(world)3.33 E 0 Cg EP
> 
> The groff version 1.23.0 e.ps file:
> 
>     - displays correctly on an X11 screen using gv, probably because
>       ghostscript knows where to find the pfb files for the Type 1 fonts.
> 
>     - will not print correctly (the PostScript printer knows nothing about
>       the Dot-Matrix font), nor can I send the document to someone else to
>       view (because they won't have the Dot-Matrix font).
> 
> I think it's a bug.  Sincerely hoping it's not a "feature".

Hi Phil,

Is it possible to provide your Type1Fonts/Dot-Matrix.ps and the corresponding 
.pfb file you mention? I'd like to try to reproduce the problem.

Cheers 

Deri