Martin:
Your proposed ghostscript, ghostscript-fonts, and system-ghostscript8
packages look good to me.
Jeff:
If you agree, I think we should move all three of these into fink.
-- Dave
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David R. Morrison wrote:
> []
> > In light of the apparent continued need for Fontmap (which is not in
> > Wierda's distribution), I've chosen #1.
>
> Wondering how GW's ghostscript can function without a Fontmap file, I
> spent some more time with this, and it seems it is more complicated:
>
> There is actually a Fontmap file in GW's ghostscript, as in Fink's
> ghostscript, too! It is in {/usr/local,/sw}/share/ghostscript/%v/lib.
> There is Fontmap, and it includes Fontmap.GS. The latter has definitions
> for all the fonts including those in the ghostscript-fonts-std (which is
> what the Fink package ghostscript-fonts contains) and the
> ghostscript-fonts-other collections (GW-ghostscript contains the fonts
> of both ghostscript-fonts-std and ghostscript-fonts-other).
>
> The Fontmap file in .../share/ghostscript/fonts, when present, is used.
> But it is not needed and is actually harmful.
>
> Another thing is that the fonts installed by Fink's ghostscript-fonts
> package are in reality *not used* by /sw/bin/gs from the
> system-ghostscript8 package. Look at "gs -h": I says
>
> Search path:
> . : /usr/local/share/ghostscript/8.13/lib :
> /usr/local/share/ghostscript/8.13/Resource :
> /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
>
> Or start gs and run loadallfonts. You see that they are loaded from
> /usr/local, not from /sw.
>
>
> Based on what I learned, I adapted the system-ghostscript8,
> ghostscript-fonts, and ghostscript packages so that
>
> - system-ghostscript8 goes back to what it did before, minus running
> type1inst in the fonts directory. It does not need to depend on
> ghostscript-fonts.
>
> - ghostscript-fonts installs both the ghostscript-fonts-std and the
> ghostscript-fonts-other collections. No type1inst.
>
> - ghostscript is updated to the latest stable version 8.13
>
> I put the package descriptions into my exp directory.
> Please comment.
>
> --
> Martin
>
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