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Package: gsfonts
Version: 8.14+v8.11-0.1
Severity: important
The URW Chancery L font in the current version of gsfonts is to small.
$ egrep ' N a ;' /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/z003034l.afm
C 97 ; WX 350 ; N a ; B 72 -11 410 343 ;
Compared to a system with gsfonts version 6.0-2:
$ egrep ' N a ;' /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/z003034l.afm
C 97 ; WX 420 ; N a ; B 87 -13 492 411 ;
So the letter 'a' is only 350 units wide in the current fonts but was
420 units wide in the original font. Similar for other characters. The
metrics of the old fonts are consistent with the metrics of Adobe's Zapf
Chancery, for which URW Chancery L is a replacement.
Problems occur, when the original metrics of the URW (or Adobe) fonts
are used by some program, but this incompatible version is used for
display/printing. One such example is the following LaTeX file:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\Huge
\fontfamily{pzc}
\selectfont
Some test
\end{document}
If you process this with latex and view the resulting DVI-file with
xdvi, the result looks good (characters almost touching). The same is
true when pdflatex is used and the resulting PDF-file is viewed. Both,
xdvi and pdflatex use the original URW fonts. If this DVI-file is
processed with dvips and the result is viewed with gv (using fonts from
current gsfonts), the characters are to small but the spacing is
unaltered. The result looks like this (exaggerated): 'S o m e t e s t'
The current version of these fonts available at
ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/release/ does not show this error and fixes
errors wrt the 'germandbls' in NimbusSans and several 'fi' and 'fl'
ligatures. BTW, where the former bugs in these fonts reported to
artifex.com/ ghostscript.com?
cheerio
ralf
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Hi,
This bug has been fixed in the current version
(1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-2)
Thanks for reporting,
MH
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Masayuki Hatta
Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
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