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Package: gsfonts
Version: 8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2
Severity: normal
The file /etc/defoma/hints/gsfonts.hints distributed with "sarge"
appears to have been generated by the defoma-hints script. But the
resulting hint-file requires a lot of correction to be useful.
There are several problems:
1. The font /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/a010013l.afm is assigned
FontName URWGothicL-Book
Family URW_Gothic_L
GeneralFamily Gothic
Weight Book
but the instructions in /usr/share/doc/defoma-doc/developers.html/ch1.html
say to assign a "PostScript-like font name". The PostScript name for the
corresponding PS font (ITC Avant Garde Gothic Book) is AvantGarde-Book.
Clearly the FontName assigned is acceptable, as it isn't the original
ITC font. But the Family should be AvantGarde_Gothic, or maybe
Avant_Garde_Gothic (using the defoma convention of replacing spaces
with underscores). I have tried using *both*
Family = URW_Gothic_L
Family = Avant_Garde_Gothic
in the hintfile, and it appears that this just makes 2 different entries
for the font; but maybe this can cause problems.
Similarly, the GeneralFamily should be SansSerif. Note that the doc
file cited above says: "The values of this HintType for alphabetical
fonts are Roman, SansSerif, Typewriter and Script. The values for
CJK hieroglyphs are Mincho, Gothic and Maru." This seems to reserve
"Gothic" for CJK fonts. [Note that this is an incorrect use of the
term "hieroglyphs"; it should just be "glyphs".]
In any case, the term "Gothic" is used very ambiguously by typographers,
and is used differently in England and in North America: on the one
hand, it's used to mean the group of typefaces formerly used to print
German (also known as "Blackletter" and "Fraktur"); on the other hand,
it's used (as ITC did) to indicate "a square-cut sans-serif typeface"
according to numerous dictionaries. We would be better off avoiding
this troublesome term entirely; but I suppose if it is used to identify
a class of CJK fonts, it may cause minimal confusion.
I also think it would be useful to add:
Alias = AvantGarde-Book
to the hintfile. This makes the actual PostScript name of the font
available to applications.
2. Likewise, this same font is assigned
Weight = Book
which is nonsense; it ought to be Medium. For the font URWGothicL-Demi
in /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/a010015l.afm we find
Weight = Demi
which ought to be bold. And the Zapf Dingbats are assigned
Weight = Regular
which ought to be Medium.
It's clear that these difficulties are mostly a result of mechanically
decomposing the font name in the defoma-hints script, which isn't very
clever. It provides a promising beginning, but cannot be used without
some hand-editing.
3. A disturbing consequence of the lack of real PostScript fontnames in
the gsfonts.hints file is the disappearance of such familiar names as
Times from the font-selection menu in mozilla. By judiciously adding real
PostScript names as aliases , it's possible to get Times back in the list
(though I have not yet managed to get Palatino there.) I believe some
of the difficulty is due to fontconfig. There are so many pieces to the
font puzzle that several rounds of tidying-up are probably required to
make it all work smoothly.
Here's the result of
diff -Naur gsfonts.hints gsfonts.hints.orig
--- gsfonts.hints 2005-06-29 21:19:55.000000000 -0700
+++ gsfonts.hints.orig 2005-06-29 20:15:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -7,9 +7,8 @@
FontName = URWGothicL-Book
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = URW_Gothic_L
- Family = Avant_Garde_Gothic
- GeneralFamily = SansSerif
- Weight = Medium
+ GeneralFamily = Gothic
+ Weight = Book
Width = Variable
Shape = NoSerif Upright
Priority = 20
@@ -36,9 +35,8 @@
FontName = URWGothicL-Demi
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = URW_Gothic_L
- Family = Avant_Garde_Gothic
- GeneralFamily = SansSerif
- Weight = Bold
+ GeneralFamily = Gothic
+ Weight = Demi
Width = Variable
Shape = NoSerif Upright
Priority = 20
@@ -58,14 +56,13 @@
begin /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/a010033l.pfb
AFM = /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/a010033l.afm
FaceNum = 6
- Inherit = Family GeneralFamily Weight Width Shape Priority
+ inherit = Family GeneralFamily Weight Width Shape Priority
Foundry = URW
FontName = URWGothicL-BookObli
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = URW_Gothic_L
- Family = Avant_Garde_Gothic
- GeneralFamily = SansSerif
- Weight = Medium
+ GeneralFamily = Gothic
+ Weight = Book
Width = Variable
Shape = NoSerif Oblique
Priority = 20
@@ -90,9 +87,8 @@
FontName = URWGothicL-DemiObli
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = URW_Gothic_L
- Family = Avant_Garde_Gothic
- GeneralFamily = SansSerif
- Weight = Bold
+ GeneralFamily = Gothic
+ Weight = Demi
Width = Variable
Shape = NoSerif Oblique
Priority = 20
@@ -172,7 +168,7 @@
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = URW_Bookman_L
GeneralFamily = Roman
- Weight = Medium
+ Weight = Regular
Width = Variable
Shape = Italic Serif
Priority = 20
@@ -224,7 +220,7 @@
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = Century_Schoolbook_L
GeneralFamily = Roman
- Weight = Medium
+ Weight = Roman
Width = Variable
Shape = Upright Serif
Priority = 20
@@ -278,7 +274,7 @@
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = Century_Schoolbook_L
GeneralFamily = Roman
- Weight = Medium
+ Weight = Regular
Width = Variable
Shape = Italic Serif
Priority = 20
@@ -326,7 +322,7 @@
Foundry = URW
FontName = Dingbats
Charset = font-specific
- Family = ZapfDingbats
+ Family = Dingbats
GeneralFamily = Symbol
Weight = Regular
Width = Variable
@@ -344,7 +340,7 @@
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = Nimbus_Sans_L
GeneralFamily = SansSerif
- Weight = Medium
+ Weight = Regular
Width = Variable
Shape = NoSerif Upright
Priority = 20
@@ -398,7 +394,7 @@
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = Nimbus_Sans_L
GeneralFamily = SansSerif
- Weight = Medium
+ Weight = Regular
Width = Variable
Shape = NoSerif Italic
Priority = 20
@@ -450,7 +446,7 @@
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = Nimbus_Sans_L
GeneralFamily = SansSerif
- Weight = Medium
+ Weight = Regular
Width = Variable
Shape = NoSerif Upright Condensed
Priority = 20
@@ -496,13 +492,13 @@
begin /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019063l.pfb
AFM = /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019063l.afm
FaceNum = 6
- Inherit = Family GeneralFamily Weight Width Shape Priority
+ INherit = Family GeneralFamily Weight Width Shape Priority
Foundry = URW
FontName = NimbusSanL-ReguCondItal
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = Nimbus_Sans_L
GeneralFamily = SansSerif
- Weight = Medium
+ Weight = Regular
Width = Variable
Shape = NoSerif Italic Condensed
Priority = 20
@@ -553,14 +549,12 @@
FontName = NimbusRomNo9L-Regu
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = Nimbus_Roman_No9_L
- Family = Times
GeneralFamily = Roman
- Weight = Medium
+ Weight = Regular
Width = Variable
Shape = Serif Upright
Priority = 20
Alias = Times-Roman
- Alias = Times
X-FontName = -urw-nimbus_roman_no9_l-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
Charset1 = ISO8859-2
X-FontName1 = -urw-nimbus_roman_no9_l-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2
@@ -583,7 +577,6 @@
FontName = NimbusRomNo9L-Medi
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = Nimbus_Roman_No9_L
- Family = Times
GeneralFamily = Roman
Weight = Bold
Width = Variable
@@ -610,9 +603,8 @@
FontName = NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = Nimbus_Roman_No9_L
- Family = Times
GeneralFamily = Roman
- Weight = Medium
+ Weight = Regular
Width = Variable
Shape = Serif Italic
Priority = 20
@@ -637,7 +629,6 @@
FontName = NimbusRomNo9L-MediItal
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = Nimbus_Roman_No9_L
- Family = Times
GeneralFamily = Roman
Weight = Bold
Width = Variable
@@ -665,7 +656,7 @@
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = Nimbus_Mono_L
GeneralFamily = Typewriter
- Weight = Semilight
+ Weight = Regular
Width = Fixed
Shape = Upright Serif
Priority = 20
@@ -719,7 +710,7 @@
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = Nimbus_Mono_L
GeneralFamily = Typewriter
- Weight = Semilight
+ Weight = Regular
Width = Fixed
Shape = Oblique Serif
Priority = 20
@@ -771,7 +762,7 @@
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = URW_Palladio_L
GeneralFamily = Roman
- Weight = Medium
+ Weight = Roman
Width = Variable
Shape = Serif Upright
Priority = 20
@@ -825,7 +816,7 @@
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = URW_Palladio_L
GeneralFamily = Roman
- Weight = Medium
+ Weight = Regular
Width = Variable
Shape = Serif Italic
Priority = 20
@@ -875,7 +866,7 @@
Charset = font-specific
Family = Symbol
GeneralFamily = Symbol
- Weight = Medium
+ Weight = Regular
Width = Variable
Shape = Upright
Priority = 20
@@ -890,7 +881,7 @@
FontName = URWChanceryL-MediItal
Charset = ISO8859-1
Family = URW_Chancery_L
- GeneralFamily = Script
+ GeneralFamily = Roman
Weight = Medium
Width = Variable
Shape = Serif Italic
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages gsfonts depends on:
ii defoma 0.11.8-0.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
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Source: gsfonts
Source-Version: 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gsfonts, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
gsfonts_8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/gsfonts/gsfonts_8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-1.diff.gz
gsfonts_8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-1.dsc
to pool/main/g/gsfonts/gsfonts_8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-1.dsc
gsfonts_8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-1_all.deb
to pool/main/g/gsfonts/gsfonts_8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-1_all.deb
gsfonts_8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/g/gsfonts/gsfonts_8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated gsfonts
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:14:58 +0900
Source: gsfonts
Binary: gsfonts
Architecture: source all
Version: 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
gsfonts - Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s)
Closes: 266440 279544 316320
Changes:
gsfonts (1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-1) unstable; urgency=high
.
* New upstream release (based on frob's urwcyr 1.0.7pre41).
* Acknowledged NMU - closes: #279544
* Sorted out the versioning scheme, set epoch to 1.
* Bumped to Standards-Version: 3.7.2.
* Fixed typos in gsfonts.hints - closes: #266440
* Applied corrections from Andrew T. Young to gsfonts.hints, thanks -
closes: #316320
* Fixed FSF's address.
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